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Maddie Kyrke-Smith, the senior postdoctoral fellow in the Shepherd lab, has received a Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Grant! This award provides two years of funding for a young investigator to extend fellowship training. Maddie was also selected for the Research Partner Program and named the Jeanne Marie Lee Investigator. Maddie will use this grant to look at the contribution of Arc to developmental synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex, which is hypothesised to contribute visual symptoms of Schizophrenia. Congratulations Maddie!
Award: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/grants-prizes/bbrf-young-investigator-grants

Chelsea Herdman, postdoctoral fellow from the Yost lab, was awarded a three year postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2020-2023) for her project entitled “The roles of microRNAs in the regulation of heart development and human congenital heart disease
https://www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research/news/2019/05/government-of-canada-invests-in-top-research-leaders-of-tomorrow.html

Shaina Short, postdoctoral fellow in the Wachowiak lab, has received the NINCD Early Career Research (ECR) Award (R21) from the NIH! This award is intended to support both basic and clinical research from scientists who are beginning to establish an independent research career. She will use this grant to obtain sufficient preliminary data for a subsequent R01 application.

Angie Serrano, postdoctoral fellow from the Yost lab, was awarded one of five prestigious Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar transition grants! Congratulations Angie!
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars is a recently established program, now in its second year, that will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree and who have completed a minimum of three years and not more than five years of a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of basic neurosciences at a medical school located in the United States. These awards are given as transitional post-doctoral awards for recipients as they advance to become full time faculty members at the Assistant Professor level or higher.