Other Programs

Doupe Fellowship

Allison Doupe was deeply connected to the McKnight Endowment Fund. She received a McKnight Scholar Award in 1993 and joined the scholar award committee in 2006. She took over as chair of the scholar committee in 2010 and joined the McKnight Endowment Fund board at that time. Additionally, Allison was an amazing mentor to young scientists.

To honor her memory, in 2015, the McKnight Endowment Fund board created the Allison J. Doupe Fellowship for post-docs. The award includes an invitation to the McKnight Endowment Fund Annual Meeting and the opportunity to present a poster about their research at the gathering. Doupe Fellows are nominated by a McKnight neuroscientist who is attending the conference.

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2023

Mora Ogando – UC Berkeley
Kelsie Eichel – Stanford University
Klibaite Ugne – Harvard University

2022

Adriene Otapalik – Rockefeller University
Zachary Pennington – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chris Zimmerman – Princeton University
Kaela Singleton – Emory University

2020

David Kastner – UC San Francisco)
Yoav Livneh – Harvard Medical School)
Allison Bond – University of Pennsylvania)
Adam Calhoun – Princeton University)
Marie Suver – New York University)

Pecot Fellowship

The McKnight Endowment for Neuroscience Pecot Fellowship is a mentorship program named in honor of our friend and colleague, Matthew Pecot, who died in 2019. Matthew was a brilliant neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and a 2017 McKnight Scholar Awardee. He received his McKnight award for his work on identifying molecular principles underlying synaptic specificity. Matthew’s McKnight work has contributed to identifying defects in neural connectivity, which underlie many neural psychiatric diseases.

The MEFN board developed the McKnight Pecot Fellowship to address the lack of opportunities for college students from underrepresented communities in the pipeline to neuroscience graduate programs. Pecot fellows are nominated by a MEFN Awardee and have the privilege of carrying out research in the awardee’s lab over the course of one year. They are also invited to attend the McKnight Endowment Fund Annual Meeting.