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Lindsay Schwarz, PhD

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Lindsay Schwarz, PhD

Developmental Neurobiology

MS 323, Room D2025F

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-2830(phone)

Quick Facts

Schwarz received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) – the highest honor bestowed by the US government to outstanding investigators at the beginning of their independent research career.

Affiliations

Department of Developmental Neurobiology

St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Education

Postdoctoral – Stanford University/HHMI, Stanford, California PhD – University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California BS – University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Honors & Awards

  • 2022 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
  • 2019 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
  • 2019  NARSAD Young Investigator Award
  • 2019  NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
  • 2018  Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Research Interests

  • Mechanisms regulating diverse functions of neuromodulatory circuits
  • Activity patterns of neuromodulatory neurons in vivo during arousal-related behaviors
  • Molecular diversity of locus coeruleus neurons
  • How changes in neuromodulatory circuits promote psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders

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