# Michelle Monje

> Michelle Monje-Deisseroth is a neuroscientist and neuro-oncologist. She is a professor of neurology at Stanford University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research program focuses at the intersection of neuroscience, immunology and brain cancer biology with an emphasis on neuron-glial interactions in health and oncological disease. In addition to her fundamental neuroscience work on brain development and plasticity, she is widely credited for pioneering the field of Cancer Neuroscience. She develops new treatments for brain cancers such as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma and other diffuse midline gliomas.

*American neurologist and researcher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/michelle-monje

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Doctor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Doctors
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1978
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 43.3
- **Category rank:** #86

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/michelle_monje (@michelle_monje)

## Timeline
- **2025** - The Brain Prize
- **2023** - Richard Lounsbery Award
- **2021** - MacArthur Fellows Program
- **2019** - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- **2018** - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
- **1978** - Born

## Sources
- [Michelle Monje](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Monje)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56931021)

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