Howard Hughes Medical Institute :: MIT :: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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Dr. Mark Bear is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and is the Picower Professor of Neuroscience at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to moving to MIT in 2003, Dr. Bear was on the faculty of Brown University Medical School for 17 years. After receiving his B.S. degree from Duke University, he earned his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Brown. He took postdoctoral training from Dr. Wolf Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and from Dr. Leon Cooper at Brown. His honors include Young Investigator Awards from the Office of Naval Research (1988) and the Society for Neuroscience (1993), and the Brown University Class of 2000 Barrett Hazeltine Citation for Teaching Excellence. He was elected as a Fellow of the Neurosciences Institute and Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives in 1999, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2005. In 2006, Dr. Bear was the recipient of the William and Enid Rosen Research Award for outstanding contributions to our understanding of Fragile X Syndrome by the National Fragile X Foundation. In January 2007, Dr. Bear was named the Director of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. |
| EDUCATION |
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| Duke University, B.S. Psychology, 1979 Brown University, Ph.D. Neurobiology, 1984 |
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
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| 1984 1985 1986 1987 1987 - 1991 1991 - 1994 1991 - 1999 1991 - 1999 1994 - 1999 1995 - 2003 1999 - 2003 - 2007 - 2007 - |
Max-Planck Fellow, Max-Planck Institut für
Hirnforschung,
Frankfurt (with Dr. W. Singer) Research Associate, Brown University (with Dr. L.N Cooper) Assistant Professor (Research), Brown University Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, Brown University Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University Co-Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Brown University Principal Investigator, Neuroscience Graduate Program Training Grant Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Picower Professor of Neuroscience, The Picower Instutute for Learning and Memory, MIT Program Director, NIMH Training Program in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, MIT Director, The Picower Instutute for Learning and Memory, MIT |
| HONORS AND AWARDS |
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| 1984 1987 1988 1993 1993 1994 1996 1998 1999 1999 1999 2000 2000 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 |
Max-Planck Fellowship Alfred P. Sloan Award U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award Fogarty Senior International Fellowship Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Associate Investigator Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Grass Traveling Scientist, Society for Neuroscience Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Investigator Elected to Neurosciences Institute Elected to Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives J. W. Jenkinson Memorial Lecturer, University of Oxford Elizabeth H. Leduc Award for Teaching Excellence in the Life Sciences, Brown University Class of 2000 Barrett Hazeltine Citation for Teaching Excellence, Brown University Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology William and Enid Rosen Research Award, The National Fragile X Foundation Special Lecturer, Society for Neuroscience |