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Dr. Giovanni Quinones-Valdez, postdoc in the Xiao lab, is awarded the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Trainee Research Excellence Award

Dr. Giovanni Quinones-Valdez, postdoc in the Xiao lab, was awarded the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Trainee Research Excellence Award. The award was announced at the ASHG annual meeting last week.

Only six trainees (three predoctoral, three postdoctoral) were selected for the award, among over 800 applicants, which is a significant professional accomplishment.

Dr. Stephanie Leal has been named a Fellow to the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) at UC Irvine

Dr. Stephanie Leal has been named a Fellow to the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) at UC Irvine, a multidisciplinary team of scholars spanning the globe. This honor is given to faculty members who were nominated by a current fellow and who received a majority vote during the voting process. The CNLM Fellows represent one of the world’s top “think tanks” in neuroscience. With an average of $20 million each year in federal funding to support high impact research programs, as well as over 10,000 citations per Fellow, they are revolutionizing our understanding of the brain and its disorders, creating innovative neurotechnologies, and improving brain health on a global scale. See a list of current fellows here: https://cnlm.uci.edu/about/fellows/