The Shepherd lab was recently selected as a recipient of the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award for the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative, which hopes to bring together new researchers with innovative ideas in the field of Alzheimer’s research. The Shepherd lab will receive 2.5 million over 5 years to fund work exploring new mechanisms that may help us understand or treat Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more below!
CZI announcement and mission statement
University of Utah announcement
All posts in Award
Dr. Jason Shepherd received an R01 through the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the mechanism of Arc dependent synaptic plasticity.
Congratulations to Kyle Jenks for receiving a NRSA award from the National Institute of Mental Health!
Congrats to Kyle who was awarded one of three T32 NIH training grant slots from the Utah neuroscience program!
Congrats to Elissa for being awarded a NIH T32 Developmental Biology Training Grant postdoctoral fellowship!