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The American neuroscientist Dr. Sonya B. Dumanis from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA will come to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch on a research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), which will begin this summer. The young researcher, who just received her doctorate in the U.S., will work for two years in the research group of Professor Thomas Willnow. There she will study the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease.
Sonya B. Dumanis graduated with a B.A. degree from Columbia University in New York City, USA, majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior. For her graduate studies, she went to Georgetown University in Washington, DC. During her PhD, she published 8 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, 4 as first author. During her studies, she was also awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship, an NIH pre-doctoral research-training award, and the Mark A. Smith prize from the Journal of Neurochemistry. Apart from her scientific studies, she was also engaged in research management and teaching and was president of the Medical Center Graduate Student Organization of Georgetown University.
Contact:
Barbara Bachtler
Press Department
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
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e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
http://www.mdc-berlin.de/
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