VIRTUAL O’Leary Prize Competition

March 16, 2021
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Zoom conference (Virtual)

Please join us for the 2021 VIRTUAL O’Leary Prize Competition

“Designed to acknowledge the most original and important accomplishments in Neuroscience research at WashU by a predoctoral or postdoctoral fellow”

Register for the webinar

This year’s finalists are:

  • Oshri Avraham, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Valeria Cavalli
  • Tamara Markovic, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jose Moron-Concepcion
  • Deng Pan, graduate student in the lab of Drs. Susan Mackinnon and Matthew Wood
  • Ryan Raut, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Marcus Raichle
  • Zachary Rosenthal, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jin-Moo Lee
  • Weikang Shi, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Camillo Padoa-Schioppa
  • Kalyan Tripathy, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Joseph Culver
  • Fang Wang, postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Brian Kim
  • Michelle Wegscheid, graduate student in the lab of Dr. David Gutmann
  • Monica Xiong, graduate student in the lab of Dr. David Holtzman

Each finalist will give a 10 minute presentation, and the winner will receive a $1000 prize.

Come support WashU Neuroscience and these outstanding young scientists!

This year’s guest judge for the Annual James L. O’Leary Prize for Research in Neuroscience is Paul Kotzbauer (WashU Neurology), one of the 1996 winners.

Learn more about the competition and see the list of past winners.

Note that our guest judge, Dr. Kotzbauer will give the O’Leary Lecture on Wednesday, March 17.