CURRENT AWARDEES

We are very proud of our Gillin and Weitzman grant winners for 2009.

The SRSF congratulates this class of grant awardees:

2009 J. Christian Gillin, MD Research Grant

Carlos Blanco-Centurion, PhD
Institution: Harvard Medical School
Project Title: Effect of Multiple Lesions of the Arousal Neurons on the Sleep Homeostatic Response

Jun Cai, MD, PhD
Institution: University of Louisville, Kosair Children’s Hospital
Project Title: Vulnerability of Defective Myelin to Intermittent Hypoxia during sleep

Giancarlo Vannini, MD
Institution: University of Michigan
Project Title: Modulation of Sleep and Wakefulness by Extrasynaptic Y-Aminobutyric Acid A (GABAA) Receptors