The five successful grants will support collaborations to probe vision cell degeneration, math learning, autism, Alzheimer’s disease and improvements in deep brain stimulation used to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases.
Click on the title of each awards to read a brief abstract.
In vivo selection for gene mutations that counteract photoreceptor degeneration
Douglas Vollrath, Genetics
Michael Bassik, Genetics
Monte Winslow, Genetics and Pathology
Massively parallel microwire arrays for deep brain stimulation
Jun Ding, Neurosurgery
Nicholas Melosh, Materials Science and Engineering
Brain mechanisms of spatial reasoning in mathematics learning
James McClelland, Psychology
Bruce McCandliss, Graduate School of Education
Anthony Norcia, Psychology
Creating an advanced transgenic animal model of autism
Karen Parker, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Alexander Urban, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Megan Albertelli, Comparative Medicine
Joachim Hallmayer, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
A novel PET radioligand to identify microglial inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
Katrin Andreasson, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Michelle James, Radiology
Sanjay Malhotra, Radiation Oncology
