2018 – Present. Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. University teaching qualification in the UK in recognition for teaching excellence
2021 – 2022. Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellowship, Wellcome Trust UK. One year research expense funding. GBP 25,000
2019 – 2021. IRSF Fellowship, International Rett Syndrome Foundation. Funding for two years of postdoctoral research. USD 100,000
2016 – 2017. UCL Neuroscience Development Fund, UCL. Six month research funding on neurodegeneration. GBP 10,000
2012 – 2015. Rosetrees Trust Early Career Fellowship, Rosetrees Trust Research funding for three years on Down syndrome. GBP 22,500
2007 – 2011. Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, United Kingdom government and GlaxoSmithKline. Graduate school studentship – 10 awarded a year for students from the developing world. Provided tuition, research fees and stipend for four years. GBP 250,000
2004 – 2007. Harold and Olga Fox Scholarship, UCL. Stipend for one international student per year studying Biology at UCL. GBP 15,000
2006. UCL Biology research bursary, UCL. Stipend to undertake summer research project during second year of undergraduate studies. GBP 2,000
2011. Guarantors of the Brain Travel Grant
2011. UCL Graduate School Travel Grant
2007, 2006. Dean’s List, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences for outstanding end of year examination results
2005. UCL tutoring award
Named Researcher in Awarded Grants
2019 – 2024. Wellcome Trust 5-year Collaborative Award in Science on Down syndrome and GABA inhibition, awarded to Trevor Smart, John O’Keefe, Elizabeth Fisher, Victor Tybulewicz and Dean Nizetic. GBP 3.8 million.
2019 – 2024. Medical Research Council UK awarded a 5-year grant on Pharmaco-circuitry of neurosteroids – regulators of mood and excitability disorders. GBP 1.5 million
2013 – 2018. Medical Research Council UK awarded a 5-year grant on Neurosteroid Modulation of GABAARs: their role in neuropsychiatric disorders. GBP 1.4 million
2014 – 2017. Leverhulme Trust awarded a 3-year grant on Photochemical Ligands and the GABAA receptor. GBP 300,000
2010 – 2014. Swiss National Science Foundation awarded 3 year grant on Molecular mechanisms of GABAergic synapse plasticity. CHF 1 million
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