April 20, 2017 – The sixth annual gathering of Leon Levy Fellows in Neuroscience brought together premier early-career scientists at the five leading neuroscience research institutions in New York City: Columbia University Medical Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, The Rockefeller University, Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine.
This year’s symposium was hosted by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center. A plenary talk on “Being a Circuit Psychiatrist” was given by Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, former psychiatry faculty at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the lead federal agency for research on disorders of the brain.
“Limitations and inconsistencies in federal funding for biomedical research have had a particularly chilling effect on study of the brain and mental health,” said Dr. Lieberman. “More than ever, brilliant young scientists require the philanthropic support that the Leon Levy Foundation so generously provides.”
April 20, 2017
