yangtancollective.bsky.social
The Yang Tan Collective accelerates collaboration in basic science, research, and engineering to realize translative strategies and technologies that achieve a healthy mind in a healthy body and improve human wellbeing at a global scale. yangtan.mit.edu
👤 Joined on 11 July 2025
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@yangtancollective.bsky.socialWe're please to announce a $34.5 million donation from philanthropist Lisa Yang for research to improve the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. We'll join 8 other centres at @harvard.edu and @mit.edu as part of the Yang Tan Collective. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4aDYoGx
Show PostWarm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026
Show PostApplying new tools to entire brains, starting with C. elegans, offers the opportunity to uncover how molecules work together to generate neural physiology, and how neurons generate behavior, write @kordinglab.bsky.social and @eboyden3.bsky.social. #neuroskyence bit.ly/48EzEO8
Show PostEven the smallest choice lights up the brain like Times Square (in mice, according to the @intlbrainlab.bsky.social papers recently published in @nature.com). Congrats to Ila Fiete, Yang ICoN Center director, on her role in this landmark map of decision-making!
Show PostCongratulations to Chris Shallal, PhD student at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology & Yang Center for Bionics, for being named an inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellow! Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
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