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NIMR postdoc wins UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize
18 July 2011
Rita Sousa-Nunes (pictured), from Alex Gould's laboratory in the Division of Developmental Neurobiology, has been awarded the 2011 UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize. Rita is one of two recipients of the prize in this, its inaugural year. Rita's award was in recognition of her Nature paper: "Fat cells reactivate quiescent neuroblasts via TOR and glial Insulin relays in Drosophila", published earlier this year.
The two winners received £500 each and were given the opportunity to speak about their research at the UCL Neuroscience Symposium 2011 on Friday 1 July, alongside their more senior peers.
This Symposium really brought home how strong and broad the field of Neuroscience is at UCL; from work on the molecular to cognition. It is thus an incredible honour to have our work highlighted in the form of a prize, including the opportunity of presenting it at the Symposium.
Rita Sousa-Nunes
Rita's paper in Nature
Rita Sousa-Nunes, Lih Ling Yee and Alex P. Gould (2011)
Fat cells reactivate quiescent neuroblasts via TOR and glial Insulin relays in Drosophila
Nature, 471: 508–512. Publisher abstract
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