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Adrienne Fairhall wins Burroughs Wellcome Career Award Adrienne Fairhall, currently at Princeton University, has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface. Adrienne will join the Department of Physiology & Biophysics as an assistant professor in January 2004. These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers with backgrounds in physical/computational sciences but whose work addresses biological questions. Adrienne is trained in Physics but is now applying her background to computational neuroscience. At Princeton, she has worked with William Bialek on the dynamics of adaptation in the fly visual system. Burroughs Wellcome Career Awards provide $500,000 over five years to support the transition from postdoctoral to faculty status. The grants are highly competitive. Only seven awards in the Scientific Interface category were made this year. http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_awards_background.html |
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