Dr. Michael Young (RU) Receives the Prestigious Gruber Foundation’s 2009 Neuroscience Prize

Dr. Michael W. Young, the Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at The Rockefeller University, has received the 2009 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. He shares the $500,000 prize with Jeffrey Hall, professor of neurogenetics at The University of Maine, and Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University. The scientists are honored for their groundbreaking discoveries of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms in the nervous system.

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