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We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Brain Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award are Professor Rickie Patani, Dr. Olivia Gosseries and Dr. Francesco Bartoli.
Professor Rickie Patani is a physician scientist with over a decade of direct experience working on human induced pluripotent stem cell models of neurodegeneration. Rickie’s lab focuses specifically on the themes of RNA metabolism and cellular autonomy in motor neurone disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS).
Dr. Olivia Gosseries is a neuropsychologist, research associate at F.R.S-FNRS and co-director of the Coma Science Group, University of Liège (Belgium). She studies pathological, physiological and pharmacological modifications of consciousness using behavioural assessments and imaging technologies. Her work focuses on diagnosis, prognosis and treatments in patients with disorders of consciousness after recovering from a coma.
Dr. Francesco Bartoli is a General Adult Psychiatrist (since 2018) and Assistant Professor (since July 2020) at the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He has a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2012). He has led several research projects in recent years on biomarkers of severe mental disorders, psychopharmacology and the comorbidity between mental and substance use disorders. He has authored 89 studies published in international journals indexed in Scopus, mostly acting as the first author.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their careful evaluation of the many excellent nominations.
Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney Editor-in-Chief, Brain Sciences
Brain Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Simone Battaglia
University of Bologna, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Sirwan Darweesh
Dr. Terry Lichtor
Rush. University Medical Center
Prof. Silvio Ionta
UNIL
Prof. Trevor J Crawford
Lancaster University
Winner
Sara Borgomaneri
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Sirwan Darweesh
Dr. Terry Lichtor
Rush. University Medical Center
Prof. Silvio Ionta
UNIL
Winner
Alessandra Borsini
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
Daniele Bertoglio
Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Paul E. Engelhardt
Dr. Fengyu Zhang
Global Clinical and Translational Research Institute
Dr. Ashu Johri
Prof. Gaoxiang Ouyang
Beijing Normal University
Dr. Augusto Fusco
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS
Winner
Dibyadeep Datta
Yale University
Dr. Giacomo Valle
ETH Zurich
Morgan H James
Rutgers University
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Alex Green
Dr. James Robert Brasic
Department of Psychiatry
Prof. Dr. Nada Andelic
Oslo University Hospital / University of Oslo
Dr. Claude Alain
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre
Winner
Rickie Patani
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The Francis Crick Institute
Francesco Bartoli
University of Milano Bicocca
Olivia Gosseries
Coma Science Group, University of Liege
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Sapienza University of Rome
Dr. Luis Lujan
Mayo Clinic
Prof. Heather Bortfeld
University of California, Merced
Dr. Andrew Clarkson
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Prof. Sergey Kasparov
University of Bristol
Dr. Evanthia Bernitsas
Wayne State School of Medicine
Prof. Konstantin Slavin
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Mark Burke
Howard University
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