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Faculty Excellence CAS News January 30, 2012

David Sweatt, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UAB Department of Neurobiology, has been awarded the 2012 neuronal plasticity prize from the Fondation IPSEN, an entity of the Fondation de France. 

Sweatt, who is the director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Research Institute and holds the Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair in Neurobiology, will receive the award at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience meeting in Barcelona on July 17, 2012.

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