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    Talia Lichtenberg

    MD-PhD student, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
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    MD-PhD student, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

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    At Lewis & Clark College, Talia studied cell death in zebrafish neural development in the Weissman-Unni Lab and received the Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship. In 2020 she graduated summa cum laude with Departmental Honors in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology for her thesis investigating the influence of BMP signaling on clonal survival in the zebrafish hindbrain. Through the Yale MD-PhD program, she is continuing to study the mechanisms underlying neuronal cell interactions in the Grutzendler Lab.

    Last Updated on September 30, 2023.

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      Goldwater Scholar

      04/30/2019National AwardBarry M. Goldwater Scholarship
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      NIH-NINDS T32 ‘Multimodal Delineation of Neurodegenerative Mechanisms’ Training Grant

      07/15/2025Yale School of Medicine Award Yale University Department of Neuroscience

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