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2008 Scolnick Prize awarded to Michael Davis
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McGovern Institute Scolnick Prize awarded to David Julius
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that David Julius, a physiologist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), will be the 2007 recipient of the Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience. The Scolnick prize is awarded each year by the McGovern Institute to recognize an individual who has made […]
McGovern Institute Presents 3rd Annual Scolnick Prize Lecture to Michael Greenberg
Leading researcher from Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School to discuss signaling networks that control synapse development and cognitive function
Faces have a special place in the brain
Are you tempted to trade in last year’s digital camera for a newer model with even more megapixels? Researchers who make images of the human brain have the same obsession with increasing their pixel count, which increases the sharpness (or “spatial resolution”) of their images. And improvements in spatial resolution are happening as fast in […]
Tod Machover at the McGovern Institute Opening Ceremony
Musicians perform a score composed by Tod Machover at the McGovern Institute Opening Ceremony in November 2005.
McGovern Institute to present inaugural Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience Research
The Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience Research will be awarded on Friday April 23rd at the McGovern Institute at MIT, a leading research and teaching institute committed to advancing understanding of the human mind and communications. According to Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Director of the Institute, this annual research prize will recognize outstanding discoveries […]