March 27, 2024
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
March 14, 2024
Haim Sompolinsky, a professor in residence in Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Department of Physics and a member of the Center for Brain Science, has received the Brain Prize for his pioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.
February 2, 2024
This is given annual to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers.
November 14, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
September 27, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
August 30, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
August 30, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
July 21, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
June 16, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
June 16, 2023
This past March, Professor of Neurobiology and former HBI co-director Mike Greenberg was announced as an awardee for the prestigious Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation. On June 6th, Mike was presented his award at a ceremony in Denmark by Crown Prince Frederik.
May 11, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
March 23, 2023
Congratulations to Michael E. Greenberg (Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and former HBI co-director) who was awarded the prestigious Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation.
March 9, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
February 24, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
February 24, 2023
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
February 1, 2023
William Carlezon, HMS Professor of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, along with Stephen Buratowski, Mark Feinberg,and Timothy Padera, were named 2022 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
November 28, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI Community
September 20, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI Community
September 20, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI Community
June 15, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI Community
May 24, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
May 4, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
May 4, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
April 21, 2022
Round-up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
February 7, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
January 21, 2022
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
November 12, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
October 26, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
September 14, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
August 11, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
July 29, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
June 11, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
May 4, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
April 8, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
March 9, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
February 23, 2021
Congratulations to Masahito Yamagata, Isle Bastille, Kadir Ozkan, Carla Carol Winter, Ayush Noori, and Clara Muñoz-Castro
February 8, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community
January 28, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
January 13, 2021
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
November 30, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
October 6, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
September 23, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
September 22, 2020
Corey Harwell was interviewed for a SFN Neuronline feature on diversifying the field through mentorship and scientific exposure.
September 11, 2020
Prof. Dulac was honored for deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.
August 13, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
July 1, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
June 1, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
May 1, 2020
Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.
April 8, 2020
Kelsey Tyssowski, postdoc in Hopi Hoekstra's lab at Harvard, received a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
April 8, 2020
Stephanie Roberts, HMS instructor in pediatrics and an attending physician in the Division of Endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital, was named by the Society for Pediatric Research as the recipient of the 2020 Bridging to Success Award.
March 10, 2020
A monthly round-up of awards and honors earned by Harvard-affiliated faculty, students, and staff.
February 6, 2020
The McGovern Institute announced that HBI co-director Joshua Sanes has been selected for the 2020 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, in recognition of his pioneering research into the way synapses are built.
February 3, 2020
Michela Fagiolini (Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital) was selected for a researcher profile video, highlighting her work on Rett Syndrome and an adaptive swim program developed for girls with this condition.
February 1, 2020
This award, given by the International Society of Stem Cell Research, recognizes the exceptional achievements of an investigator in the early part of his or her independent career in stem cell research.
December 19, 2019
The Daniel D. Federman Staff Award was established in 2014 to recognize staff for exceptional institutional engagement and service in supporting the missions of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
December 19, 2019
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers from all scholarly disciplines working on child and youth development.
December 16, 2019
Congratulations to Isle Bastille (Goodrich lab), Jaeeon Lee (Sabatini lab), Isabel D’Alessandro (Wilson lab), Jess Bell and Mary Whitman (Engle Lab), Ellen DeGennaro (Walsh lab), and Joseph Zak (Murthy lab).
November 1, 2019
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) presented its highest honor, the Ralph W.Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Michael Greenberg and Catherine Dulac.
November 1, 2019
Her research shows how neurons outside of the brain — those that control the sensation of touch — can alter brain function and shape select behaviors associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
November 1, 2019
The 2019 Cowan Award was presented to Dr. Joshua R. Sanes for outstanding contributions in developmental neuroscience.
November 1, 2019
The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) has presented McLean Hospital’s Bertha K. Madras, PhD, with its Innovator Award.
November 1, 2019
This award is made possible by a generous gift from the Aramont Charitable Foundation and provides critical funding to advance high-risk, high reward science conducted by graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty.
October 26, 2019
This award challenges investigators at all career levels to pursue new research directions and develop groundbreaking, high-impact approaches to a broad area of biomedical, behavioral or social science.
October 11, 2019
Harvard University has received a $20 million gift from philanthropists Lisa Yang and Hock Tan, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, to establish The Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard Medical School.
September 26, 2019
This honor is given to the student conducting “the most original and significant research in Drosophila neurobiology during the previous two years”.
September 17, 2019
Congratulations to our latest round of awardees!
August 14, 2019
The Landis Award is granted annually, with five researchers receiving $100,000 each to support their efforts in advancing the careers of students and postdoctoral fellows in their labs.
August 1, 2019
They were one of 44 doctoral advisor-student pairs awarded a Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study from HHMI.
July 22, 2019
Hopi Hoekstra was awarded the C. Hart Merriam Award by the American Society of Mammalogists.
June 26, 2019
Congratulations to our latest round of Awardees!
June 24, 2019
the Dean’s Community Service Award was established in 1999 to recognize individuals whose dedication and commitment to community service have made a positive impact on the local, national, or international community.
June 14, 2019
Lucas is a postdoc in the lab of Anne Takesian at Mass Eye and Ear.
June 14, 2019
Jeffrey Moffitt and Alan Brown, faculty at HMS and Boston Children's Hospital, are among 22 earlier career researchers selected by Pew Charitable Trusts to join the Pew Scholars Program in Biomedical Sciences.
June 7, 2019
As dean for graduate education, Segal will be responsible for the strategy, oversight and coordination of graduate education at HMS,
May 20, 2019
Dr. Hrvatin aims to understand the neuronal circuits that initiate and regulate this profound hypometabolic state as a means to ultimately harness the potential of these adaptations to develop new medical treatments.
May 20, 2019
Since 1985, the LEGO® Prize has been awarded to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children and are champions of learning through play.
May 14, 2019
The prize, named for MCB faculty John Dowling, honors neuroscience concentrators who produce outstanding thesis work.
May 8, 2019
The award, presented by the GSAS Graduate Student Council (GSC), recognizes a handful of faculty who go above and beyond in supporting and advising their graduate students.
May 7, 2019
The NAS Award in Molecular Biology is supported by Pfizer Inc. and recognizes a recent notable discovery by a young scientist who is a citizen of the United States. The award is presented with a medal and a $25,000 prize.
May 7, 2019
The Harvard College Professorships were launched in 1997 through a gift from John and Frances Loeb. They are five-year appointments that include extra support for research or scholarly activities, and a semester of paid leave or a summer salary.
May 2, 2019
Awardees are selected from an applicant pool of 1,767 for their potential to make significant contributions to United States society, culture or their academic fields, & will receive up to $90,000 in funding for the graduate program of their choice.
April 30, 2019
Harvard Medical School receives $4.5 million for cannabinoid research from Harvard University from Charles R. Broderick, an alumnus of Harvard University and MIT.
April 29, 2019
The Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Program supports research relevant to the basic understanding and eventual treatment of bipolar disorder.
April 25, 2019
Cindy Chau (‘19) and Mark Czeisler (‘19), have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the Office of Undergraduate Research Fellowships and Australian-American Fulbright Commission respectively.
April 22, 2019
Congratulations to Kritika Gupta (Lab of Phillipe Cluzel), Nathan Lord (Lab of Alex Schier), Athar Malik (Lab of Nao Uchida), Annika Nichols (Lab of Alex Schier), and Yasuyo Tanaka (Lab of Nao Uchida).
April 19, 2019
He was honored for his world-leading research in global mental health and his pioneering approaches for the prevention and treatment of mental health in low-resource settings.
April 18, 2019
Congratulations to Barbara Kahn, Ronald Kessler, Jeremy Wolfe, and Danesh Moazed.
March 14, 2019
Jeffrey Holt and Nicte Mejia among four honored with Scholars in Medicine Excellence in Mentoring Award at the 79th annual Soma Weiss day.
March 4, 2019
Stephen Zhang, a neuroscience graduate student in the labs of Michael Crickmore and Dragana Rogulja, was awarded a 2019 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
March 4, 2019
This award is the highest honor given by the Learning Disabilities Association of America. It's given annually in recognition of and appreciation for outstanding leadership at the national level.
February 28, 2019
The Fellowship encourages the nation's most promising young scientists to pursue careers in cancer research by providing them with independent funding ($231,000 total) to work on innovative projects.
February 26, 2019
These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
February 22, 2019
Reich, along with colleague Svante Pääbo, honored for their studies of ancient human DNA.
January 28, 2019
This award recognizes an investigator who has made outstanding contributions to the field of immunology in the area of B cell biology.
January 28, 2019
This award is given by Carnegie Mellon University and recognizes substantial achievements in the natural sciences, engineering, computer science or mathematics.
January 28, 2019
This award is given by the Sleep Research Society and recognizes individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to sleep and circadian science.
January 28, 2019
This award is given by the American Society of Addiction Medicine and recognizes work that has significantly contributed to solving the problem of alcoholism.
January 28, 2019
These awards are given by the National Academy of Science to recognize extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide variety of fields.
December 20, 2018
Along with along with Larry Zipursky, Josh Sanes has been awarded the 2018 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize for the “discovery of cell-surface proteins that control circuit assembly in the visual system.”
December 20, 2018
Isaac Chiu and Debora Marks were awarded Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Awards. David Walt and George Church were awarded a Collaborative Science Award by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
December 3, 2018
Congratulations to Carl Nist-Lund, Bifeng Pan, Jeffrey Abbott, Tianyang Ye, Swathi Ayloo, Brian Wai Chow, and Kevin Sitek. Each winner will receive $200 and a customized desk plaque with their image.
November 21, 2018
They were recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished work
November 20, 2018
The Department of Systems Biology celebrated the leadership of Marc Kirschner at the first annual Systems Biology Symposium at HMS.
November 10, 2018
He was honored at the Outstanding Postdoc Fellow Awards Symposium on November 7th.
November 10, 2018
Catherine Dulac was awarded the 2018 Karl Spencer Lashley Award by the American Philosophical Society.
November 8, 2018
Harvard Medical School received a transformational gift of $200 million from the The Blavatnik Family Foundation -- the largest gift in the school's history, to accelerate therapeutic discovery and spur scientific advances.
November 5, 2018
HMS News article on an announcement by the Bertarelli Foundation and HMS of four new collaborative research grants given to Harvard neuroscientists tackling sensory disorders--from hearing loss, deafness and blindness to acute and chronic pain.
November 3, 2018
The $15,000 award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions made by young neuroscientists who have demonstrated scholarly independence.
October 31, 2018
A documentary film from the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute featuring interview with HBI co-director Mike Greenberg, has won three Cannes Corporate Media and TV Awards
October 30, 2018
Chenghua Gu, along with systems biologist Marc Kirschner and cancer researcher David Weinstock, received the Allen Distinguished Investigator award
October 18, 2018
Xiaowei Zhuang was awarded this prize “for discovering hidden structures in cells by developing super-resolution imaging – a method that transcends the fundamental spatial resolution limit of light microscopy.”
October 16, 2018
Considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
October 3, 2018
The Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Boston Children’s Hospital celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on October 30th.
September 27, 2018
Postdoctoral fellows Carolyn Elya (lab of Benjamin de Bivort) and Shan Meltzer (lab of David Ginty) were awarded 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowships.
September 27, 2018
Congratulations to Paola Arlotta who was named chair of Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.
August 29, 2018
The One Mind Rising Star Awards encourage the community of researchers to innovate in basic and translational science to benefit patients, while supporting the research of emerging leaders in the field.
August 28, 2018
These grants help researchers launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry and gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants.
August 6, 2018
The prize is named in honor of the late neuroscientist Nakaakira Tsukahara of Osaka University and honors outstanding Japanese life sciences researchers.
August 4, 2018
Lauren is a postdoc in David Ginty's lab; Clara is a graduate student in Nao Uchida's lab. This award is designed to recognize, reward and foster talented early-career biomedical scientists.
July 18, 2018
Earlier this year, 52 awards were made to students & fellows in neuro labs across Harvard, to support travel for advanced training & the sponsorship of visiting scholars. This month we highlight two awardees who hosted collaborators.
June 29, 2018
Daniela Di Bella, a postdoc in Paola Arlotta’s lab, has been named to the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences. Each fellow will receive two years of funding to study with a principal investigator in the United States.
June 12, 2018
Michael Wells, a postdoc in Kevin Eggan’s lab, has been selected to participate in the Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute and has also been selected for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Postdoctoral Enrichment Program.
May 11, 2018
Eight faculty honored by the American Academy of Neurology at their annual meeting this past April.
May 4, 2018
HBI Congratulates Susan Dymecki, Wade Harper, Naomi E. Pierce, and Christopher A. Walsh on being elected as 2018 Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
April 19, 2018
Congratulations to Jasper Maniates-Selvin on winning an HBI Community Resource Award! This small grant is part of a newly launched Young Scientist Development program, supported by funding from the Office of the Provost at Harvard University.
April 17, 2018
The Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) Bipolar Disorder Seed Grant Program supports research relevant to the basic understanding and eventual treatment of bipolar disorder.
February 12, 2018
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researcher John Nelson Campbell, PhD is one of six recipients of the 2018 Pathway to Stop Diabetes (Pathway) grants awarded by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
February 12, 2018
Bob Datta, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, was recently awarded an Edward N. And Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation Award in Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery research.
February 12, 2018
Frederick Alt, was recently awarded a 2018 Major Grant Award by the Charles Hood Foundation for his work on the role of recurrent DNA break cluster genes in brain development and disease.
January 17, 2018
The program seeks to bolster the career development of neuroscience trainees by providing flexible small grants to support creative training endeavors not easily covered by other funding sources, including the building of community resources.
December 20, 2017
Dr. Paola Arlotta, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
December 19, 2017
Dr. Bruce Rosen, director of the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
December 15, 2017
Awarded by The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), the Bridge to Independence grants help talented early-career scientists with an interest in autism transition from mentored training positions to independent research careers.
December 6, 2017
Six Harvard scientists are among those receiving $150 million in Funding from the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
October 8, 2017
Congratulations to Lynne Chantranupong, PhD, Sabatini Lab; Yvette Fisher, PhD, Wilson Lab; and Molly Schumer, PhD, Reich Lab for being awarded 2017 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowships.
October 6, 2017
On October 6th, the Department of Neuroscience celebrated Chengua Gu becoming a tenured Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
July 5, 2017
In early July, the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing at UW Medicine, in collaboration with labs at Caltech and Harvard, launched alongside the Allen Discovery Center for Human Brain Evolution at Boston Children’s Hospital and HMS.