Ian has been announced as the winner of the UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize (Advanced Catagory), which recognises outstanding work published in the past year by early career UCL neuroscientists! The prize was awarded for the recent paper published in Brain, which looks at the function of the glymphatic system in an animal model of tauopathy.
Congratulations to the rest of the prize winners of this years's prize:
Federico Rossi (Winner in Junior Category), UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - Talk title: Spatial connectivity matches direction selectivity in visual cortex
Naciye Magusali (Runner-up Junior Category), UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL - Talk title: A genetic link between risk for Alzheimer's disease and severe COVID-19 outcomes via the OAS1 gene
Jonathan Lezmy (Runner-up Junior Category), UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology - Talk title: Astrocytes regulate myelinated axon excitability and conduction speed
Magda Atilano (Runner-up Advanced Category), UCL Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment - Talk title: Enhanced insulin signalling ameliorates C9orf72 repeat toxicity
Catia Andreassi ( Runner-up Advanced Category), MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at UCL - Talk title: mRNA metabolism in the axons of developing sympathetic neurons
Ian will give his prize talk at the upcoming UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize Winners Showcase, held on 17th February. Registration for the event is open now!