Neuroscience Graduate Program

In early March, Mark, a senior graduate student, received notification that he received an Entrepreneurial Fellowship from the Slater Technology Fund; the Slater Fellows Program is designed to attract and support a next generation of entrepreneurs in the life sciences industry.  Also, with mentor Carlos Aizenman, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Mark published an article in Nature Neuroscience on the potential of putrescine to reduce seizures.  Link to URLs for both stories.

http://www.ri-cie.org/content/documents/Slater_Fellows_Press_Release.pdf

http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2011/03/epilepsy

Congratulations to Naveen Rao who recently activated a prestigious NIH NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship to support his work, with John Donoghue, on the interactions of parietal and motor cortices during voluntary movement.  Naveen joins several current NSGP students who have received an NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship: Summer Allen, Jennifer Barredo, Julia Najera, Ceci Phillips, and Timothy Zolnik.

David Badre, current NSGP trainer and in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, received a Sloan Research Fellowship for his work on hierarchical processing in human neocortex.  Nathaniel Sawtell (NSGP PhD, 2002) now at the Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, also received the award for his work on the neural basis of sensory-motor integration.  Congratulations to David and Nate; they join David Sheinberg who won this award in 2001, soon after joining the Brown faculty.