Grant Program John Merck Scholars I Program

To support research in synaptic plasticity underlying experience-dependent development by John Merck Scholar finalist Stephan Van Hooser.

To support research on neural circuits for multisensory decisionmaking by John Merck Scholar Anne Churchland.

To support research on the effects of the chemical and social environments on reading impairment by John Merck Scholar finalist Kimberly Noble.

To support research on the role of glia and the complement cascade in the refinement of developing neural circuits by John Merck Scholar Beth Stevens.

To support research on social attention and word learning in typical development and autism spectrum disorders by Michael Frank.

To support research on elucidating protein synthesis defects in Fragile X Syndrome using new molecular tools by John Merck Scholar finalist Michael Z. Lin.

To support research on genetic dissection of CNS wiring specificity in development and disease by John Merck Scholar finalist Andrew Huberman.

To support research into functional dissection of the central cholinergic system in cognition by John Merck Scholar Adam Kepecs.

To support research on regulation of excitatory synaptogenesis by GABA in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Cagla Eroglu.

To support research on the development of magnitude reasoning, including normative and atypical trajectories, by John Merck Scholar Stella Lourenco.