A monthly round-up of awards and honors earned by Harvard-affiliated faculty, students, and staff. Please reach out to us at HarvardBrainScience@gmail.com with any award news you would like to share!

Fenna Krienen (Lab of Steven McCarroll) and Hume Stroud (Lab of Michael Greenberg) selected as fellows by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), as part of the 2019 Bridge to Independence Award program.

Natasha O’Brown (Lab of Sean Megason) and Erin Duffy (Lab of Michael Greenberg) among six Harvard Medical School postdoctoral researchers to receive awards from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

Francisco Quintana, HMS professor of neurology and a multiple sclerosis researcher at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has won the 2019 Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research.

Cengiz Pehlevan, Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, FAS, receives 2019 Google Faculty Research Award.

Corey Harwell, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, HMS, and Hermioni L. Amonoo, Instructor in Psychiatry, BWH, receive the Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award.

Giselle Grenier, Executive Assistant, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, receives Dean’s Distinction Award.