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The lab is the recipient of one of the 79 grants awarded this year across all scientific disciplines. I am really honored by this recognition. This SNF grant will allow us to study, using cutting-edge technologies, the complex cellular dynamics of progenitor cells during brain development.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded a grant to the lab of Gioele La Manno, together with the Karolinska Institute and The University of Edinburgh. The collaborative research aims at new therapies for multiple sclerosis, and will be part of the Human Cell Atlas project.

I have been appointed the first Scholar of the EPFL Life Sciences Early Independence Research program (ELSIR), a revolutionary fellowship that gives talented PhD graduates the kind of research independence they could usually only get much later in their career.

Two research teams at Karolinska Institutet have identified the dopamine-producing cells in the midbrain of mice and humans. They have also developed a method of assessing the quality of in-vitro cultured dopamine-producing cells, which can be of great benefit to research on Parkinson’s disease. The results are published in the academic journal Cell.