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New Director

Mala Murthy has been named the new Director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) Professor

Murthy is the Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience She joined PNI in 2010 after receiving her PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University, and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at CalTech. Professor Murthy has received a number of honors, including an NSF CAREER award, an NIH New Innovator award, a McKnight Scholar award, an NINDS Research Program award, and an HHMI Faculty Scholar award. She is also a member of the council that oversees the scientific direction of the US BRAIN Initiative.