Marissa Scavuzzo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has won the 2023 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for research in how glial cells in the intestine's nervous system operate.
Glial cells are considered support cells in the brain and help control and safeguard neurons. It is unclear what they do in the gut.
"It's still surreal," Scavuzzo, the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow in the School of Medicine's Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, said of the coveted award. "I am grateful to Eppendorf and Science for their recognition of my work, and will be forever grateful to my postdoctoral mentor, Dr. Paul Tesar, who played a crucial role in fostering my research in his lab.
Since 2002, the annual Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology has honored early-career scientists for groundbreaking research. Scavuzzo is the 22nd recipient of this international prize, which is awarded jointly by the journal Science and Eppendorf SE, a leading Germany-based life-science company that develops, makes and sells systems for use in laboratories worldwide.
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