8/2/10: Ben Philpot PhD is the 2010 Freedman Award Honorable Mention

Benjamin D. Philpot, PhD, NARSAD 2006 Young Investigator of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, discovered that the molecular composition of receptors shapes memory formation and the wiring between brain cells. These studies will help guide therapeutic treatments of schizophrenia and other affective disorders.  For full details about this honor, you can read the press release from NARSAD here.