{"id":3228,"date":"2017-03-20T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neurology\/event\/presentation-of-the-17th-perl-unc-neuroscience-prize-presentation-lecture\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:09:54","slug":"presentation-of-the-17th-perl-unc-neuroscience-prize-presentation-lecture","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neurology\/event\/presentation-of-the-17th-perl-unc-neuroscience-prize-presentation-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"17th Perl\/UNC Neuroscience Prize presentation &#038; lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neurology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/716\/2018\/05\/DavidAnderson.jpeg\" alt=\"2017\" class=\"image-left\" title=\"David Anderson - Perl Prize\"\/>David Anderson, PhD will visit Chapel Hill on April 12th to receive the 17th Perl-UNC Neuroscience prize \u2013 a $20,000 cash award \u2013 and give a lecture on his work at 3 p.m. in room G202 in the Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB) with a reception to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\u201cDavid is a remarkable scientist who conducted seminal research uncovering the neural circuits key to innate behaviors associated with emotional states, such as defensive behaviors and aggression,\u201d said Mark Zylka, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center. \u201cFrankly, David could have also won the Perl Prize for the important work he accomplished earlier in his career on neural stem cell fate and differentiation. We look forward to welcoming him here in Chapel Hill as our 17<sup style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/sup><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span>recipient of this prize honoring the late Dr. Edward Perl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">Anderson, who is the Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and doctorate from the Rockefeller University. He joined Caltech in 1986. He was the first scientist to isolate a multipotent self-renewing stem cell for neurons and glial cells, the two main cell types in the brain. 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