Oka Receives McKnight Award

Oka Receives McKnight Award

Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology. Credit: Caltech Yuki Oka, assistant professor of biology, has been named one of six recipients of the 2016 McKnight Scholars Award. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience awards $75,000 per year for three years to support young scientists who are establishing their own laboratories and research centers. The award is only available to researchers in the first four years of a tenure-track faculty position. “A McKnight Scholar Award is one of the most prestigious early-career honors that a young neuroscientist can receive,” said Anthony Movshon, chair of the awards committee and professor at New York University, in a press release. “This year’s Scholars are a superbly talented group, with as much promise as any selected in the past. … Their work will help us…


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