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Awardee of the 2023 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience

The Japan Neuroscience Society here extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Tomasz Nowakowski of the 2023 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience.
Dr. Tomasz Nowakowski
Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Anatomy
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Weill Institute for Neurosciences,
Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
New York Stem Cell Foundation - Robertson Investigator
University of California San Francisco

Comment on receiving the Altman Award

Submitted articles
Denise E. Allen, Kevin C. Donohue, Cathryn R. Cadwell, David Shin, Matthew G. Keefe, Vikaas S. Sohal, Tomasz J. Nowakowski. Fate mapping of neural stem cell niches reveals distinct origins of human cortical astrocytes. Science vol.376 issue 6600, pp. 1441-1446 (2022).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm5224.
Ryan N. Delgado, Denise E. Allen, Matthew G. Keefe, Walter R. Mancia Leon, Ryan S. Ziffra, Elizabeth E. Crouch, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla & Tomasz J. Nowakowski. Individual human cortical progenitors can produce excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Nature 601, 397–403 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04230-7.
Ryan S. Ziffra, Chang N. Kim, Jayden M. Ross, Amy Wilfert, Tychele N. Turner, Maximilian Haeussler, Alex M. Casella, Pawel F. Przytycki, Kathleen C. Keough, David Shin, Derek Bogdanoff, Anat Kreimer, Katherine S. Pollard, Seth A. Ament, Evan E. Eichler, Nadav Ahituv & Tomasz J. Nowakowski. Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development. Nature 598, 205–213 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03209-8.
The award ceremony and the lecture at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
The award ceremony and the lecture will be held during the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society from August 1 to August 4, 2023. (https://neuroscience2023.jnss.org/en/index.html)
Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience
On April 19, 2016, Dr. Joseph Altman, who discovered neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain and received the International Prize for Biology from His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, passed away. Dr. Shirley A. Bayer, Dr. Altman’s widow who conducted research with him for over 30 years, offered to make a donation to the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) with the goal of instituting an award in developmental neuroscience. Accordingly, after discussion in a JNS special committee, the Board of Directors of JNS, at the Board meeting on July 19, 2016, decided that JNS would establish and administer the Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience.
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