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Michelle Monje

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American neurologist and researcher

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1978 · age 48
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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.

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

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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.

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Born 1978 · age 48
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