Hunter Alumna Wins Highly Prestigious Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
Photo courtesy of Vanessa Ruta
Vanessa Ruta '99, a neuroscientist, is the winner of a Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to early-career-researchers who demonstrate extraordinary promise; 39 Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
Ruta heads the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, where she leads studies exploring how a brain's neural circuits are modified by experience. At Hunter she majored in chemistry and worked in the laboratory of Professor Charles Michael Drain.
Vanessa Ruta awarded Sloan Research Fellowship (Newswire, The Rockefeller University)
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