{"id":2130,"date":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-earns-competitive-grant-from-whitehall-foundation\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:00:00","slug":"salk-scientist-earns-competitive-grant-from-whitehall-foundation","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-earns-competitive-grant-from-whitehall-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cient\u00edfico de Salk gana subvenci\u00f3n competitiva de la Fundaci\u00f3n Whitehall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA, CA\u2014<a href=\"\/es\/faculty\/nimmerjahn.html\/\">Axel Nimmerjahn<\/a>, doctorado, profesor asistente en <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/biophotonics\/\">Centro Waitt de Biofot\u00f3nica Avanzada<\/a> y titular de la Silla de Desarrollo Richard Allan Barry en Biofot\u00f3nica ha sido galardonado con una subvenci\u00f3n de gran selectividad de la Whitehall Foundation. Recibir\u00e1 $223.000,00 durante tres a\u00f1os para estudiar la contribuci\u00f3n de los astrocitos a la funci\u00f3n cerebral normal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLas c\u00e9lulas astroglia, llamadas as\u00ed por su caracter\u00edstica \u201cforma de estrella\u201d, han sido consideradas tradicionalmente como miembros del equipo de soporte, conocido como gl\u00eda, que nutre y protege a las neuronas en el cerebro. M\u00e1s recientemente, han surgido como actores celulares sofisticados que participan activamente en la regulaci\u00f3n del desarrollo y la funci\u00f3n de los circuitos neuronales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEsta subvenci\u00f3n ayudar\u00e1 a apoyar la investigaci\u00f3n para determinar si y c\u00f3mo los astrocitos en animales despiertos regulan la din\u00e1mica neuronal y tal vez el comportamiento\u201d, dijo Nimmerjahn. \u201cResolver esta pregunta es de gran importancia y aumentar\u00e1 nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de los complejos procesos celulares que subyacen a la funci\u00f3n cerebral y el comportamiento normales\u201d.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUna mejor comprensi\u00f3n del papel de los astrocitos en el cerebro podr\u00eda conducir al desarrollo de nuevos tratamientos para trastornos neurol\u00f3gicos, muchos de los cuales pueden ser el resultado de una funci\u00f3n glial defectuosa o desordenada, o verse exacerbados por ella, como la epilepsia o la migra\u00f1a. \u2019Revisar nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de la funci\u00f3n de las c\u00e9lulas gliales cambiar\u00e1 nuestro enfoque para tratar o incluso prevenir enfermedades\u201d, dijo Nimmerjahn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNimmerjahn ha creado y contin\u00faa desarrollando herramientas que permiten a los investigadores visualizar y manipular directamente la gl\u00eda en el cerebro intacto, sano y enfermo. Esto ha llevado a conocimientos clave en la biolog\u00eda de las c\u00e9lulas gliales, con amplias implicaciones para nuestra visi\u00f3n de la funci\u00f3n cerebral, que eventualmente podr\u00edan conducir a tratamientos novedosos para enfermedades neurodegenerativas del cerebro.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAntes de unirse al Instituto Salk, Nimmerjahn obtuvo un doctorado en F\u00edsica en el Instituto Max Planck de Investigaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica\/Universidad de Heidelberg en Alemania y complet\u00f3 una beca de investigaci\u00f3n postdoctoral en Biolog\u00eda y F\u00edsica Aplicada en la Universidad de Stanford en California.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEl logro de Axel de obtener la beca de la Whitehall Foundation es un testimonio de sus logros cient\u00edficos\u201d, dijo el presidente del Instituto Salk, William R. Brody. \u201cSu innovadora investigaci\u00f3n tendr\u00e1 un profundo impacto en el avance de nuestro conocimiento en neurobiolog\u00eda del desarrollo y ayudar\u00e1 a dar lugar a nuevos tratamientos para enfermedades neurodegenerativas del cerebro\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSobre la Fundaci\u00f3n Whitehall:<\/strong><br \/>\nLa Fundaci\u00f3n Whitehall es una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro dedicada exclusivamente a apoyar la investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica en neurobiolog\u00eda de vertebrados e invertebrados en los Estados Unidos. Las becas que otorga son muy competitivas y se destinan a proyectos que se centran en los mecanismos neuronales implicados en las funciones sensoriales, motoras y otras funciones complejas del organismo en su conjunto, en la medida en que estas se relacionan con el comportamiento. La fundaci\u00f3n apoya estudios cient\u00edficos cuyo objetivo general es comprender mejor las manifestaciones conductuales o los mecanismos cerebrales que subyacen al comportamiento.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Acerca del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos:<\/strong><br \/>\nEl Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos es una de las instituciones de investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica m\u00e1s destacadas del mundo, donde un cuerpo docente de prestigio internacional investiga cuestiones fundamentales de las ciencias de la vida en un entorno \u00fanico, colaborativo y creativo. Centrados tanto en el descubrimiento como en la formaci\u00f3n de las futuras generaciones de investigadores, los cient\u00edficos del Salk realizan contribuciones revolucionarias a nuestra comprensi\u00f3n del c\u00e1ncer, el envejecimiento, el Alzheimer, la diabetes y las enfermedades infecciosas mediante el estudio de la neurociencia, la gen\u00e9tica, la biolog\u00eda celular y vegetal, y otras disciplinas relacionadas.<\/p>\n<p>Los logros del cuerpo docente han sido reconocidos con numerosos galardones, entre los que se incluyen premios Nobel y la pertenencia a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Fundado en 1960 por el Dr. Jonas Salk, pionero en la vacuna contra la poliomielitis, el Instituto es una organizaci\u00f3n independiente sin fines de lucro y un hito arquitect\u00f3nico.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[89],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2130","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-axel-nimmerjahn"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk scientist earns competitive grant from Whitehall Foundation - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-earns-competitive-grant-from-whitehall-foundation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk scientist earns competitive grant from Whitehall Foundation - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA, CA\u2014Axel Nimmerjahn, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and holder of the Richard Allan Barry Developmental Chair in Biophotonics has been awarded a highly selective grant from the Whitehall Foundation. 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