Stanford Neurosciences Institute awards first round of Seed Grants
Aug 27 2015
BY AMY ADAMS
The Stanford Neurosciences Institute awarded their first round of Seed Grants, funding five projects, each of which brings together two or more faculty members to solve problems within the field of neuroscience.
The five successful grants will support collaborations to probe vision cell degeneration, math learning, autism, Alzheimer’s disease and improvements in deep brain stimulation used to treat Parkinson’s and other diseases.
Seed grants provide a small amount of funding that allows faculty to launch new collaborations and pilot novel ideas. They bridge faculty from across disciplines and schools to focus on critical challenges in neuroscience.
For this round of funding, the Institute encouraged neuroscience faculty to interface with three strategic areas of strength at Stanford: 1) engineering and the quantitative sciences, 2) chemical and molecular biology, and 3) the social sciences, humanities and professional schools of education, law and business.
Funded grants
In vivo selection for gene mutations that counteract photoreceptor degeneration
Douglas Vollrath, Genetics
Michael Bassik, Genetics
Monte Winslow, Genetics and Pathology
Massively parallel microwire arrays for deep brain stimulation
Jun Ding, Neurosurgery
Nicholas Melosh, Materials Science and Engineering
Brain mechanisms of spatial reasoning in mathematics learning
James McClelland, Psychology
Bruce McCandliss, Graduate School of Education
Anthony Norcia, Psychology
Creating an advanced transgenic animal model of autism
Karen Parker, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Alexander Urban, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Megan Albertelli, Comparative Medicine
Joachim Hallmayer, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
A novel PET radioligand to identify microglial inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
Katrin Andreasson, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Michelle James, Radiology
Sanjay Malhotra, Radiation Oncology
