Each year, the McGovern Institute awards fellowships, generously provided by our supporters, to foster the research of exceptional graduate students in labs across the institute. Meet the 2019-2020 graduate fellows, who study a wide range of topics — from worm behavior to human emotion.
Interested in supporting future fellows? Contact us at mcgovern@mit.edu.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
MJ makes flexible probes in Polina Anikeeva‘s lab that deliver drug with pinpoint accuracy.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
Maddie is pushing the limits of AI in the McDermott lab to hear a pin drop within a tapestry of noise.
Janet and Sheldon (1959) Razin Fellow
Suzannah develops brain-inspired AI in the Halassa lab that can handle multiple tasks at once.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
Eghbal develops computer models in the Fedorenko lab that can extract meaning from language.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
Toby explores how microglia — or immune cells — influence brain development in Guoping Feng‘s lab.
Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research Fellow
In the Zhang lab, Alim tinkers with CRISPR gene-editing tools to make them work efficiently in cells.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
Eugene probes the minds of worms in the Horvitz lab to understand how humans learn.
Lore Harp McGovern Fellow
Hyo sculpts brain-inspired neural networks in the DiCarlo lab.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
In the Fiete lab, Maz analyzes specialized neurons that help us navigate the world around us.
Friends of the McGovern Institute Fellow
In the Boyden lab, Dan builds optical devices that harness light to a degree never before possible.
Lore Harp McGovern Fellow
Atharva builds flexible probes in the Anikeeva lab that listen to and control the activity of neurons.
