{"665927":{"#nid":"665927","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Neuroscience-focused Researchers Jeffrey Markowitz and Anqi Wu Awarded 2023 Sloan Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENews coverage originally posted by Jerry Grillo and Bryant Wine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJeffrey Markowitz and Anqi Wu have joined a cohort of 125 early career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sloan.org\/fellowships\/\u0022\u003EThe Sloan Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E awards are the most competitive, prestigious awards available to early career researchers. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, fellowships award rising scientists $75,000 on any expenses supporting their research over a two-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarkowitz\u2019s research focuses on how the brain decides which action to perform at each moment in time \u2013 that is, action selection. He is interested in the cortical and subcortical circuits that mediate this process and how they go awry in neurological disorders such as Parkinson\u2019s disease.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is a great honor, and I\u2019m very fortunate because this award gives us a fair amount of freedom in the early stages of our research,\u201d said Markowitz, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cSometimes, how creative you can be is defined by how flexible your support is. This award is really key as we try new, innovative things in our work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u2019s research aims at leading next-generation computational neuroscience. Her research develops integrated data analysis tools to provide systematic, comprehensive understandings of neural mechanisms and biological functions, pushing the boundary of computational models for neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe fellowship provides significant financial support for my early-stage research career,\u201d said Wu, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. \u201cI will use it for the research on developing advanced statistical models for neural and behavioral data analyses. My hope is to help experimental neuroscientists to decipher the massive datasets they collect and provide interpretable insights into our brain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/jeffrey-markowitz-named-2023-sloan-research-fellow\u0022\u003EFull story on Jeffrey Markowitz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/anqi-wu-awarded-2023-sloan-research-fellowship\u0022\u003EFull story on Anqi Wu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have joined a cohort of 125 early career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have joined a cohort of 125 early career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. "}],"uid":"34602","created_gmt":"2023-02-17 23:01:33","changed_gmt":"2023-04-04 18:11:41","author":"Georgia Parmelee","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670441":{"id":"670441","type":"image","title":"Jeffrey Markowitz and Anqi Wu","body":null,"created":"1680631748","gmt_created":"2023-04-04 18:09:08","changed":"1680631840","gmt_changed":"2023-04-04 18:10:40","alt":"Jeffrey Markowitz and Anqi Wu","file":{"fid":"253298","name":"JeffreyMarkowitz-AnqiWu.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/04\/JeffreyMarkowitz-AnqiWu.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/04\/JeffreyMarkowitz-AnqiWu.png","mime":"image\/png","size":170542,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/04\/JeffreyMarkowitz-AnqiWu.png?itok=xWg4z1F8"}}},"media_ids":["670441"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"187582","name":"go-ibb"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}