NIH Director's Pioneer Award Won By Brandeis Neuroscientist...How will it be used?
 

NIH Director's Pioneer Award Won By Brandeis Neuroscientist

22 Sep 2007

"Brandeis neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award, a five-year grant totaling $2.5 million. She is one of 12 recipients nationwide to win the highly competitive award."

"Turrigiano will use her Pioneer Award to develop a super-resolution cryo-microscopic method for probing the structure of the synapse, which is one of the most complex molecular machines. This method will make it possible to determine how synapses are impaired by neurodevelopmental and neurological diseases."

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