Award provides funding for post-doctoral fellows to begin their independent research careers
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Liz Haynes, a Morgridge Institute for Research postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Pathology Assistant Professor Tyler Ulland and Medical Physics Professor and Morgridge investigator Kevin Eliceiri, was named a Simons Foundation “Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain” Transition to Independence Fellow. Haynes studies the role of microglia, the brain’s innate immune cells, in aging and neurodegenerative disease. This award provides two years of funding to help fellows secure a tenure-track faculty position, and then a total of $600,000 over three years to support their research as new faculty.
For more details see: https://morgridge.org/story/morgridge-postdoctoral-fellow-receives-simons-foundation-award-to-support-her-future-research/
