In a celebration of mentorship and academic guidance, Harvard University has recognized Monica Boselli, PhD, MCB Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager, and Harvard sophomore Dora Michaelides with prestigious Excellence…
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Carolyn Elya Named a 2025 Searle Scholar
The MCB Department is delighted to announce that MCB Assistant Professor Carolyn Elya has been selected as a 2025 Searle Scholar. This prestigious award recognizes exceptional young faculty…
Lichtman Lab’s Collaborative Work Honored with 2024 Good Tech Award
A groundbreaking paper co-authored by the lab of MCB’s Jeff Lichtman has been named a recipient of the 2024 Good Tech Awards by The New York Times. This…
MCB’s Takao Hensch Receives Japanese National Honor
Takao Hensch, MCB Professor and Neurology Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon—one of Japan’s highest civilian…
Catherine Dulac to be Named Officer of the Legion d’Honneur
We are thrilled to announce that distinguished MCB professor Catherine Dulac was honored with the title of Officer of the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian award. The prestigious…
Nicholas Bellono Unravels the Mysteries of Diverse Sensory Systems: Wins 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience
We are thrilled to announce that MCB’s Nicholas Bellono, has been honored with the 2024 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).…
Peering into the Social Brain
Why is social connection so crucial, and what motivates animals to seek it out? This is the core question that MCB Professor Catherine Dulac has been investigating for…
Jeeyun Chung Earns Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship and Charles H. Hood Foundation Grant
MCB faculty Jeeyun Chung has both received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience and a Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award. Issued by the Esther A.…
Professor Haim Sompolinsky Receives The Brain Prize
MCB Professor-in-Residence and Professor of Physics Haim Sompolinsky has been awarded The Brain Prize, the world’s largest brain research prize, given to researchers who have had a ground-breaking…
Interdisciplinary and Inter-Institutional Partnership Studying Neurodegenerative Diseases Wins Support from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Work from the lab of Jeeyun Chung, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, on lipid droplets’ roles in neurodegenerative diseases will be supported by a Chan Zuckerberg…
