Congratulations to Moataz Assem who has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. The award, totalling over £800k, is for five years to investigate working memory brain circuits at the MRC CBU. Moataz’s research aims to understand how we “actively” focus on limited information while also maintaining a broader “hidden” cognitive background.
To this end, Moataz will utilise innovative combinations of advanced techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electrocorticography (ECoG), and precision functional MRI (fMRI), alongside anatomical data from non-human primates. This multimodal approach holds significant implications for circuit-based clinical interventions. Moataz is collaborating with top institutions globally, including Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, the Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute/INSERM in Lyon, and the University of Oxford.
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