Yale University Child Study Center
To support research by John Merck Scholar Kevin Pelphrey on charting normal and abnormal development of the social brain.
Grant Program John Merck Scholars I Program
Cornell University Weill Medical College
To conduct the 2006 summer institute on the biology of developmental disabilities.
New York University
To support John Merck Scholar finalist Lila Davachi’s research.
Stanford University
To support John Merck Scholar finalist Kang Shen’s research.
University of California, Berkeley
To support research on neural underpinnings of deficient cognitive controls in developmental disorders affecting frontostriatal circuitry by John Merck Scholar Silvia Bunge.
University of Minnesota Medical School
To support research on the role of neuronal excitability in vocal plasticity by John Merck Scholar Teresa Nick.
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.
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.
Harvard Medical School
To support research on the functional and molecular analysis of the DSCAM family of neuronal immunoglobulin receptors by Dietmar Schmucker, PhD.