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David Shechner selected for McKnight Foundation 2025 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award

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The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected four projects to receive the 2025 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards. The awards will total $1.2 million for research on the biology of brain diseases, with each project receiving $100,000 per year in each of the next three years for a total of $300,000 funded per project.