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Recognition highlights groundbreaking research into genetic brain disorders
Wei-Hsiang Huang, PhD, Scientist at The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (The Institute) and Associate Professor at McGill University’s Centre for Research in Neuroscience has received the prestigious Maud Menten New Principal Investigator Prize in Genetics from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Genetics.
This national award celebrates early-career investigators whose research excellence is advancing the field of genetics. The prize is named in honour of Dr. Maud Menten, a trailblazing Canadian biomedical scientist whose work included the co-discovery of the Michaelis–Menten equation, one of the most enduring principles in biochemistry.