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Romanian-born M.D. Sergiu Pasca of the Stanford University was named 2021 Basic Research Awardee by the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS).
According to SIRS President, Dame Til Wykes, the award goes to a SIRS member who has made an outstanding basic research contribution to schizophrenia research.
Dr. Sergiu Pasca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of Stanford Brain Organogenesis.
Interested in understanding the rules governing brain assembly and the mechanisms of disease, he developed some of the initial in-a-dish models of disease by deriving neurons from skin cells taken from patients with genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. He also pioneered a modular system to integrate 3D brain region-specific organoids and study migration and neural circuit formation in functional preparations known as assembloids.