Jaime Grutzendler MD, PhD
Yale University, New Haven

Building the Nervous System “understanding cell-cell interactions between neuronal and non-neuronal cells”

Amita Sehgal, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Metabolism, cell and molecular neurobiology “cellular networks that drive  rhythmic behaviors such as sleep”

Alejandro F. Schinder, PhD
Leloir Institute, Buenos Aires

Neurodegeneration “mechanisms of plasticity of the adult mammalian brain”

Nicola Allen, PhD
Salk Institute, San Diego

Glia “discovering the proteins astrocyte secrete in young, adult, and aging brain that impact synaptic function differentially in physiological and disease states”