Grace Benish wins the Waisman Undergraduate Student Award!
8/12/2026: Grace Benish ’26 was awarded the 2026 Undergraduate Student Award by the Friends of the Waisman Center. We are wishing her the best as she embarks on her medical school journey!
Now Online: Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefrontal cortex
4/23/2026: Our paper is now out in Science! Find it here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549
Congratulations to authors Ryan Risgaard, Sara Knaack, Masoumeh Hosseini, Rachel Chen, Danielle Schmidt, Carlos Wang, and Elisa Giusti.
Congratulations, Dr. Risgaard!
2/26/2026: Ryan successfully defended his thesis titled “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of human brain development, evolution, and disease”. Ryan is the first PhD student to graduate from the lab. He will now continue his MD studies. Congrats, Ryan!
