MD-PhD Student Awarded NIH F30 Grant

Andrew Iannone, a seventh year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has been awarded an F-30 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH).

This award will suppor Mr. Iannone's research in the De Marco Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine's Feil Family Brain & Mind Reseaerch Institute. His project, in his own words, will "explore the hypothesis that sensory input to defined subtypes of inhibitory interneurons at early developmental stages is necessary to recruit genetic programs mediating the emergence of correctly patterned sensory cortical maps;" and his results will "address a significant gap in understanding the intersection between genetic risk and aberrant sensory processing circuitry in the emergence of ASD symptomatology."

Andrew Iannone



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