The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) as one of seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award.<\/p>\n
The McKnight awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to neuroscience. Lewis will be granted $75,000 per year for three years to study the effects of sleep on neural computation and physiology, with an emphasis on the role of cerebrospinal fluid and how it synchronizes with neural slow waves.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe McKnight Scholars are tackling some of the most exciting questions in neuroscience today,\u201d says Kelsey C. Martin, chair of the awards committee. \u201cThis year\u2019s class of Scholars showcases the diversity of young, brilliant, innovative neuroscientists from across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis, who joined ENG in 2019, has been pushing fMRI imaging techniques to heretofore-unheard-of speeds, gaining second-to-second data on the clusters of neurons that serve as switches between sleep and wakefulness. Her goal is to understand how sleep promotes brain health, and why sleep is disrupted in neurologic and psychiatric disorders.<\/p>\n
With the McKnight award, Lewis has completed a science trifecta of sorts. It is the third major research award she\u2019s won this year, having also earned a Sloan Research Fellowship<\/a> and membership in the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences<\/a> in 2021. She has also garnered the inaugural 1907 Trailblazer Award<\/a> and a Searle Scholars Program<\/a> grant.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s won so many awards in the short time she\u2019s been at BU,\u201d says Professor John White, chair of BME. \u201cIt seems like she can\u2019t write an award application without getting it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) as one of seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award. The McKnight awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,899],"tags":[694,641,846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140323,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108912\/revisions\/140323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}