Denis Jabaudon wins Gill Institute Award

Denis Jabaudon, full professor and director of the Department of Basic Neurosciences in the Faculty of Medicine at the UNIGE and member of the Synapsy Centre for Neuroscience Research in Mental Health, is the winner of the Gill Institute Award 2024 for his pioneering contributions in the field of neuroscience.

A specialist in the formation of cortical networks, Denis Jabaudon is also the academic head of the NeuroNA human cellular neuroscience platform and an associate doctor in the Neurology Department at the HUG. He is interested in how different types of neuron are genetically programmed during development to assemble into circuits, and how this process can be altered in developmental disorders. He is also seeking to understand how the genetic programmes governing the formation of cortical circuits could be manipulated to promote rewiring and functional recovery for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. In a recent publication in the journal Nature, he discovered the genetic programmes that allow motor neurons to retract from the spinal cord.

Gill Institute Awards

For more than 20 years, Indiana University's Gill Institute has been rewarding neuroscientists whose particularly innovative and original research has advanced their discipline.

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