Sammy Kuo Award Winners

This page celebrates the recipients of the Sammy Kuo Awards in Neuroscience, recognizing exceptional research by Stanford graduate students and postdocs. Below, you'll find a complete list of awardees and their nominated papers.

 

2024

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A group of eight individuals standing outside the LKSC building, each holding certificates. From left to right: Chuanyun Xu, Uche Medoh, Shuai Wang, Xiao Yang, Csaba Forro, Matthew McCoy, Chuchu Wang, and Olivia Gautier. All are smiling, and the backdrop includes glass doors and the building's exterior.
Photo by Saul Bromberger
Winners of the 2024 Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Annual Symposium. From left: Chuanyun Xu, Uche Medoh, Shuai Wang, Xiao Yang, Csaba Forro, Matthew McCoy, Chuchu Wang, and Olivia Gautier. Photo by Saul Bromberger.

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

AwardAwardeePaper
Paper of the Year (First Place)Dian Lyu (Parvizi Lab)"Causal evidence for the processing of bodily self in the anterior precuneus" - Neuron, 2023
Second PlaceShuai Wang (Südhof Lab)"Alternative splicing of latrophilin-3 controls synapse formation" - Nature, 2024
Third PlaceMatthew McCoy (Fire Lab)"Parallel gene size and isoform expansion of ancient neuronal genes" - Current biology : CB, 2024
Honorable MentionChuchu Wang (Brunger Lab)"Structure and topography of the synaptic V-ATPase-synaptophysin complex" - Nature, 2024
Honorable MentionXiao Yang & Csaba Forro (Cui and Pasca Labs)"Kirigami electronics for long-term electrophysiological recording of human neural organoids and assembloids" - Nature, 2024

 

Graduate Students

AwardAwardeePaper
Paper of the Year (First Place)Uche Medoh (Abu-Remaileh Lab)"The Batten disease gene product CLN5 is the lysosomal bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate synthase" - Science, 2023
Second PlaceChuanyun Xu (Luo Lab)"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of teneurin signaling in synaptic partner matching" - Cell, 2024
Third PlaceOlivia Gautier (Gitler Lab)"Challenges of profiling motor neuron transcriptomes from human spinal cord" - Cell, 2023

 

2023

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Sammy Kuo Award Winners 2023 stand with Zulema Garibo, Program Coordinator, and Kang Shen, Vincent V.C. Woo Director of Wu Tsai Neuro. Photo by Ola Hopper.
Winners of the 2023 Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Annual Symposium. From Left: Lori Dershowitz, Sofia Essayan-Perez, Yichao Wei, Oliver Hahn, Matthew Pomrenze, Daniel Liu, Simon Haziza, and Wu Tsai Neuro Director Kang Shen. Not pictured: John Vaughen and Alex Gogliettino. Photo by Ola Hopper.

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Sammy Kuo Award Winners 2022
Winners of the 2022 Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Annual Symposium. From Left: Prof. Corinna Darian-Smith, Avin Veerakumar, Tal Iram, Emily Kubota, Felicity Gore, Kevin Kelley, and Wu Tsai Neuro Director Kang Shen. Not pictured: Daniel O'Shea, Omer Revah, Xulu Sun, Amelie Schafer. Photo by Fontejon Photography.

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2014

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2013

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2012

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2011

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