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Caltech scholar Aditya Nair wins 2024 Gruber International Research Award
Nair, alongside two other young neuroscientists, Angelo Forli and Camille Testard, will receive the $25,000 award and present their research at SfN's annual meeting in 2024.
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Aditya Nair. / Image - CalTech
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has awarded the 2024 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award to Indian-origin researcher, Aditya Nair, from the California Institute of Technology.
Established in 2005 and supported by The Gruber Foundation, the award recognizes early-career neuroscientists for outstanding research and educational achievements in an international setting.
Nair, a graduate acholar at Caltech’s computation and neural systems program and conducts research under the guidance of David Anderson, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech.
Nair’s work focuses on emotional behaviors and neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly aggression, through the lens of dynamical systems and machine learning. His 2023 study, published in ‘Cell’, identified neural mechanisms underlying aggression in mice using machine learning, revealing a network computation that encodes the persistence and intensity of aggressive states.
His recent collaboration with the Anderson lab, resulting in three papers published in ‘Nature’ and ‘Cell’ in September 2024, further advanced the understanding of these neural mechanisms.
"Adi's work has opened up a whole new line of investigation in my lab that has already resulted in four major publications and which will keep us busy for many years," says Anderson, emphasizing its lasting impact.
Nair, who earned his undergraduate degree from the National University of Singapore, expressed gratitude for the recognition. These discoveries have the potential to reconceptualize mental health disorders as impaired neural computations. By doing so, I hope we can begin embracing the diversity in how these disorders are expressed and begin moving toward new ways to treat them," he said.
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