2011 Developmental Disabilities Grants
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
John Merck Scholars Program in the Biology
of Developmental Disabilities in Children
Brandeis University$10,000
To support research in synaptic plasticity underlying experience-dependent development by John Merck Scholar finalist Stephan Van Hooser.
California Institute of Technology$75,000
To support research on dissecting the function of macaque prefrontal face patches by John Merck Scholar Doris Tsao.
Children's Hospital Boston$75,000
To support research on the role of tuberous sclerosis proteins in axon development by John Merck Scholar Mustafa Sahin.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$75,000
To support research into functional dissection of the central cholinergic system in cognition by John Merck Scholar Adam Kepecs.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$75,000
To support research on neural circuits for multisensory decisionmaking by John Merck Scholar Anne Churchland.
Columbia University$10,000
To support research on the effects of the chemical and social environments on reading impairment by John Merck Scholar finalist Kimberly Noble.
Emory University$75,000
To support research on the development of magnitude reasoning, including normative and atypical trajectories, by John Merck Scholar Stella Lourenco.
Harvard Medical School$75,000
To support research on the role of glia and the complement cascade in the refinement of developing neural circuits by John Merck Scholar Beth Stevens.
Harvard University$75,000
To study functional analyses of a neural circuit regulating olfactory learning by John Merck Scholar Yun Zhang.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$75,000
To support research into the exploratory behaviors of at-risk infants by John Merck Scholar Laura Schulz.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$75,000
To support research on activity-dependent regulation of GABAergic synapses and neural circuit plasticity by John Merck Scholar Yingxi Lin.
Stanford University$75,000
To support research on social attention and word learning in typical development and autism spectrum disorders by Michael Frank.
Stanford University$10,000
To support research on elucidating protein synthesis defects in Fragile X Syndrome using new molecular tools by John Merck Scholar finalist Michael Lin.
University of California, San Diego$10,000
To support research on genetic dissection of CNS wiring specificity in development and disease by John Merck Scholar finalist Andrew Huberman.
University of Massachusetts/Amherst$75,000
To research how selective attention deficits contribute to language processing disorders by John Merck Scholar Lisa Sanders.