By Washington State University – Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology and the Sleep and Performance Research Center

Translating Critical Periods: Biological Basis and Reversibility
May 14, 2024
12:10–1:00 P.M. PDT

SCCRS 250 or via Zoom
Meeting ID: 912 9312 2827
Passcode: 021133

Speaker: Takao Hensch, PhD
Professor, Harvard University

Takao Hensch is a joint Professor of Molecular Cellular Biology at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Professor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Harvard graduate at the University of Tokyo, UCSF and former Fulbright Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute, Hensch helped launch the RIKEN Brain Science Institute as Laboratory Head for Neuronal Circuit Development and Critical Period Mechanisms Research before returning to Harvard in 2006. Here he directs the NIMH Silvio Conte Center for Mental Health Research and leads and advises global research networks such as the International Research Center for Neurointelligence, CIFAR Child Brain Development network, NCCR Synapsy, and National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. Dr. Hensch has received several honors, including the Sackler Prize, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, and Young Investigator Awards from the Society for Neuroscience both in the US and Japan while serving on various editorial boards, such as chief editor for Frontiers in Neural Circuits.

For more information contact Michelle Sanchez.