OCTOBER 2023
Viviana named the Director of the Merkin Institute for Translational Research at Caltech!
JUNE 2023
Xinhong Chen wins the Lawrence L. and Audrey W. Ferguson Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering!
FEBRUARY 2023
Viviana named the Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering at Caltech!
DECEMBER 2022
Viviana selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)!
JANUARY 2022
Viviana named a 2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)!
OCTOBER 2020
Viviana receives the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience!
AUGUST 2020
Viviana is the 2020 grand prize winner of the Science and PINS Prize for Neuromodulation!
AUGUST 2020
Congratulations to Min Jee Jang who received NARSAD Young Investigator Grant!
APRIL 2020
Viviana recieves the 2020 Outstanding New Investigator Award from ASGCT!
January 2019
Congratulations to Elliot for being selected as a 2019 Bridge to Independence Award fellow by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative!
February 2019
Viviana is featured in the Neuron “Voices” article Driving the Next Steps with Technology, celebrating 30 years of Neuron, where she discusses recent advances and neuroscience applications of adeno-associated viral vectors.
2018
Viviana Gradinaru: Moore Inventor Fellow.
May 2018
Viviana is promoted to Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering. Congratulations!
2017
Viviana Gradinaru: winner of 2017 Early-Career Scientist Innovators in Science Award
August 2017
Congratulations to Jenny who just received NARSAD Young Investigator Grant!
May 2017
Dr. Ken Chan, GLab’s first PhD recipient, won the (1) Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Entrepreneurship or Related Fields and the (2) Lawrence L. and Audrey W. Ferguson Prize for his thesis work on viral vectors and tissue clearing. Congratulations!!
October 2016
Viviana receives Peter Gruss Young Investigator Award!
February 2016
Viviana is awarded a PECASE!: “Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.”
March 2015
Viviana is a Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience.
October 2014
G-Lab is awarded a BRAIN initiative grant in collaboration with Changhuei Yang’s group at Caltech.
