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Prof. Yan Yu awarded interdisciplinary Scialog program grant to study Schizophenia


December 14, 2021

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced the recipients of these funds that award high-quality, creative, and blue sky ideas that came from the science dialog (Scialog) program. The project, titled Elucidating the Polygenic Origins of Schizophrenia: Linking Protein Trafficking to Synapse Function, is a collaboration between Prof. Yu, Prof. Stephanie Gupton (UNC Chapel Hill), and Prof. Alexis Komor (UCSD). For more information, see https://rescorp.org/news/2021/12/scialog-chemical-machinery-of-the-cell-final-round-of-awards-tops-1.3m and the IU press release, https://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/12/iub/inside/14-yan-yu-genetic-causes-schizophrenia.html