Awards and Honors from April 2022

Venki Murthy, along with neuroscientists Grace Schennato Pereira Moraes and Marcio Moraes at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil, is part of a collaboration that will build a fabrication laboratory or “FabLab” for use by neuroscientists in Brazil. The Office of the Vice Provost for Research recently awarded the team money from the Lemann Brazil Research Fund, which encourages collaborations between scientists in Brazil and at Harvard. Read the full story on the Harvard Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology website.

Andreas Horn, HMS member of the faculty of neurology at Brigham and Women’s, has been named to receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation.

Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, HMS assistant professor of ophthalmology at Schepens, was awarded a 2022 Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation Award.

Nazlee Zebardast, HMS assistant professor of ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear, was awarded a Research to Prevent Blindness 2021 Career Development Award.

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