STAT January 13, 2025
DURHAM, N.C. — Kafui Dzirasa wants nothing less than to reengineer the brain’s electrical patterns to treat anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. While it sounds far-fetched, many of biomedicine’s biggest funders are betting this psychiatrist, engineer, and neuroscientist might just pull it off.
Grants and awards keep rolling in. A major National Institutes of Health grant before he finished his residency. The 2019 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience for research “likely to change the way psychiatrists think about mental illness.” In 2021, the biggest plum in biomedical science — $11 million in Howard Hughes Medical Institute funding — and...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor