Aaron W. McGee, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology, has received a Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for his work on neural plasticity in the laboratory of Stephen M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D., the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology. The awards, established in honor of Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, provide $500,000 in “bridging support,” distributed over five years, to sustain the research projects of senior postdoctoral fellows as they move into junior faculty positions.

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