Grant Program John Merck Scholars I Program

To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Michael P. Kilgard, PhD.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Finalist Wei-Min Zhong.

To conduct a summer institute on the biology of developmental disabilties for 36 students.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Bruce McCandliss, PhD, on the development of visual word recognition skills, a cognitive neuroscience approach to normal function, impairment and intervention.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Leslie Vosshall, PhD, on olfactory perception and the encoding of preference.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD, on the normal and abnormal development of cognitive control using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

To organize a Cold Spring Harbor Course on the “Biology of Developmental Disabilities.”

To support research on cortical development focusing on the understanding of dendritic filopodia using two-photon microscopy.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Zhigang He on repulsive mechanisms in axon pathfinding and regeneration.

To support research by John Merck Scholar Samuel Pleasure on developmental signaling systems in hippocampal development.