The Department of Neurobiology congratulates Weizhe Hong on receiving the 2021 John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research Prize from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Professor Hong-wei Dong and lab collaborators’ work was spotlighted in Dr. Francis Collins’ August 3rd Director’s Blog. The Dong Lab is busy cataloging cell types and helping to assemble a wiring diagram of the connectivity in the mammalian brain, under the NIH BRAIN Initiative. Read what Dr. Collins had to say at: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/08/03/the-amazing-brain-toward-a-wiring-diagram-of-connectivity/
Undergraduate student researcher Jessica Sawaya from the lab of Professor Paul Micevych in the Department of Neurobiology was selected as a winning entry in the 2021 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, Science, Engineering, & Math, 3rd place) for her paper, “Time course of estrogen and progesterone induced lordosis in mice.” The Department congratulates Ms. Sawaya for this achievement.