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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Neuroscience鈥檚 Caroline Runyan Wins Searle Scholarship
, assistant professor of , has been named a 2019 Searle Scholar. She is one of 15 young scientists selected for recognition this year.
The awards grants to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences or chemistry who are in their first tenure-track position. An advisory board of eminent scientists chooses the scholars based on rigorous standards designed to find the most creative talent pursuing academic research careers. The recognition comes with an award of $300,000 in flexible funding to support work over the next three years.
搁耻苍测补苍鈥檚 聽at 51精品视频 focuses on sensation聽and how the meaning of sensory stimuli can change in different contexts to enable聽survival. The goal of her research is 鈥渢o understand the circuit mechanisms that control the flow of information between brain regions. How do networks filter out irrelevant information? How does incoming sensory information interact with the animal鈥檚 internal brain state?鈥 she said.