Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center developmental biologist Cecilia Moens, PhD recently received a prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. The new grant will allow Moens to better understand the cues that help growing neurons find their way through a developing embryo to form sensory-motor neural circuits. Her work will reveal how intimate contacts between cells, and the arrangement of key molecules along these cells, help guide a neuron even when its goal — the brain — is far away.
“This is a brand-new project that absolutely could not have occurred without Javits funding,” Moens said.
