Science Diversity Leadership Awards

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD, received a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her project, “Evolution of Neural Stem Cells in the Human Hippocampal Neurogenic Niche in Development and Disease,” explores how neural stem cells of the hippocampus develop, age, and contribute to cognitive change and epilepsy. As part of the project, trainees from underrepresented backgrounds will learn basic neuroscience with translational implications.

CZI partnered with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to launch the Science Diversity Leadership program, a funding opportunity that aims to recognize and further the leadership of excellent biomedical researchers who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their scientific fields.

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Neurology

University of California, San Francisco

Evolution of Neural Stem Cells in the Human Hippocampal Neurogenic Niche in Development and Disease

This project explores how neural stem cells of the hippocampus develop, age, and contribute to cognitive change and epilepsy. Trainees from underrepresented backgrounds will learn basic neuroscience that has translational implications.