Yale researcher receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Neuroscience Award for innovative research discoveries.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 October 2002-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale researcher receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Neuroscience Award for innovative research discoveries (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10112002 New Haven, Conn. -- Yale researcher Pasko Rakic, M.D., has received the Fifteenth Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research for discovering the principles and molecular mechanisms of neuronal migration.

The discovery of neuronal migration and his numerous other contributions have provided the contemporary framework for current understanding of normal and pathological development of the human brain. Rakic, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, received $50,000 and a...