MIT Picower Professor Li-Huei Tsai, who has led The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory since 2009, will step down from the role of director at the end of the academic year in May. Her decision frees her to focus exclusively on her academic work, including her continued leadership of MIT's Aging Brain Initiative and the Alana Down Syndrome Center. Meanwhile, the search for the Picower Institute's next director has begun. 'During her exceptional 16-year tenure in the role of director, Li-Huei has led substantial growth at the Picower Institute,' says Nergis Mavalvala, dean of the MIT School of Science and the Curtis and Kathleen Marble professor of astrophysics. 'She has markedly expanded the faculty ' eight of the current 16 labs joined Picower under her directorship ' through successful recruitment of highly talented neuroscientists. She has done this, and more, all while leading one of our most productive and influential labs, working on a quintessentially grand challenge in...
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