University of Minnesota Medical School
To support research on the role of neuronal excitability in vocal plasticity by John Merck Scholar Teresa Nick.
Grant Program Developmental Disabilities
University of Pennsylvania
To support research by John Merck Scholar finalist Daniel Swingley.
Cornell University Weill Medical College
To conduct the 2005 summer institute on the biology of developmental disabilities.
National Association for the Dually Diagnosed
To provide travel assistance for parents and caregivers to attend the annual conference, and to provide general support.
Harvard Medical School
To support research on the functional and molecular analysis of the DSCAM family of neuronal immunoglobulin receptors by Dietmar Schmucker, PhD.
Stanford University School of Medicine
To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Tirin Moore.
University of California, San Francisco
To support research on the neural correlates of learning in the hippocampal-cortical circuit by John Merck Scholar Loren Frank.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
To support research on visual processing in children with dyslexia and their siblings by John Merck Scholar Ann Skoczenski.
Yale University
To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Weimin Zhong.
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
To support the study the regulation of synaptic development by the neurexin-neuroligin complex by John Merck Scholar Peter Scheiffele, PhD.