The Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, the highest honor bestowed by SfN, recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroscience throughout their career. At the SfN annual meeting this past fall, Styker was celebrated for "Pioneering Visions: Michael Stryker's Contributions to Understanding the Visual Cortex"
The National Institute of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward (HRHR) program awards more than $200 million to researchers across different stages of their careers, including six UCSF researchers. The HRHR program under the Common Fund supports research that is “transformative, catalytic, synergistic, cross-cutting, and has unique potential in areas of behavioral and biomedical research. <more>
Emily Goldberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology at UCSF where her lab studies how coordination between immune and metabolic systems controls inflammation and chronic disease. <more>
David Julius, PhD, a professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine who has received medicine’s most prestigious awards, including the 2021 Nobel Prize for co-discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
Individuals were honored at a ceremony last week. You can learn more about them in these videos available on UCSF.edu.
Eye Movements in REM Sleep Mimic Gazes in the Dream World
Multiple Brain Regions Coordinate to Conjure Wholly Imagined Worlds
By Robin Marks
When our eyes move during REM sleep, we’re gazing at things in the dream world our brains have created, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The findings shed light not only into how we dream, but also into how our imaginations work.
David Julius, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine at UC San Francisco, has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Julius received the prize jointly with Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch,” according to the Nobel committee in Stockholm, Sweden.
