Heidelberger One of Four Honored with Women Faculty Forum Award

December 9, 2021
Women Faculty Forum Awards

(From left to right) Ruth Heidelberger, MD, PhD; Jessica Cardenas, PhD; Angela Heads, PhD; and Rachel Jantea, MD; receive their Women’s Faculty Forum Excellence Awards Dec. 2 in the Fifth Floor Gallery. (Photo by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications)

John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Faculty Award from the Women Faculty Forum – Research

Ruth Heidelberger, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Frederic B. Asche Chair in Ophthalmology, claimed the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Faculty Award from the Women Faculty Forum – Research.

Heidelberger’s lab studies mechanisms of presynaptic plasticity and synaptic communication with the goal of identifying new therapeutic targets for the amelioration of synaptopathic disorders of the central nervous system. The lab is currently exploring roles of syntaxin 3B, a retinal specific phosphoprotein, in the mammalian retina that is require for vision.

Heidelberger received her PhD in 1991 and her medical degree in 1993 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook Medical School. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Membrane Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in 1996 before joining the faculty at McGovern Medical School the same year.

Read more on McGovern Medical School News site.