{"id":1879,"date":"2006-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/two-salk-researchers-win-mcknight-technological-innovations-in-neuroscience-award\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T07:00:00","slug":"two-salk-researchers-win-mcknight-technological-innovations-in-neuroscience-award","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/zh\/news-release\/two-salk-researchers-win-mcknight-technological-innovations-in-neuroscience-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Salk researchers win McKnight Technological Innovations  in Neuroscience Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Jolla, CA  \u2013 Dr. <a href=\"\/zh\/faculty\/krauzlis.html\/\">Richard J. Krauzlis<\/a> and Dr. <a href=\"\/zh\/faculty\/callaway.html\/\">Edward M. Callaway<\/a> have been selected for the McKnight Technological  Innovations in Neurosciences Award. The awards support scientists working on  new and unusual approaches to understand brain function. <\/p>\n<p>Established in 1999, the  Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards provide $200,000 over a period  of two years. Each year, up to four awards are given. This year, three of the  awards will go to investigators at the University  of California at San   Francisco, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. <\/p>\n<p>Krauzlis and Callaway, both in the  Systems Neurobiology Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies,  will develop a method to inactivate specific subpopulations of neurons in  localized regions of the brain. If successful, their novel method will be an  invaluable tool for neuroscientists, who are trying to tease apart the  contribution of each of thousands of kinds of neurons found within the  mammalian nervous system. <\/p>\n<p>The technique involves two steps.  The first is to use a bioengineered virus to deliver to targeted neurons a gene  that codes for a fly hormone receptor. The second step is to deliver the  hormone ligand that sticks to the receptor and activates it thereby completely  shutting down the electrical activity of the affected neurons.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to precisely control  the activity of specific neuronal cell types will help identify how information  is processed in the brain; and which specific nerve cells work together to  mediate sensation, cognition, and motor control. Understanding the neural circuits  that underlie brain function is a crucial step toward developing new therapies  and cures for treating brain disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in New Jersey, Krauzlis earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in  biology from Princeton University and his doctorate in neuroscience from the  University of California  in San Francisco.  After completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Eye  Institute in Bethesda, he was recruited to the  Salk Institute in La Jolla. A faculty member  since 1997, Krauzlis studies the brain circuits that link attention, perception  and voluntary eye movements. <\/p>\n<p>A native of Southern California,  Callaway received his bachelor&#8217;s degree from Stanford University  and his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology. After traveling  east to conduct postdoctoral studies at Rockefeller  University and Duke  University, Callaway returned to California to join the  Salk Institute. A faculty member since 1995, he focuses on the brain circuitry  that responds to and analyzes visual stimuli.<\/p>\n<p>The Salk Institute for Biological  Studies in La Jolla, California, is an independent nonprofit  organization dedicated to fundamental discoveries in the life sciences, the  improvement of human health and the training of future generations of  researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio vaccine all but eradicated the  crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the Institute in 1965 with a  gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the March of Dimes. <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[84],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-1879","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-edward-callaway"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Salk researchers win McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award - 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\/zh\/news-release\/two-salk-researchers-win-mcknight-technological-innovations-in-neuroscience-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Salk researchers win McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Jolla, CA \u2013 Dr. Richard J. 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