Marc Schneeberger Pane is awarded the Princess of Girona Award in Life Sciences

The FPdGi launched the Princess of Girona Foundation Awards in 2010 with the aim of promoting and fostering initiative and effort, scientific research and artistic creativity, solidarity and the development of talent in young entrepreneurs and innovators who are driven to build a more just world in a globalized setting, and who have the capacity to take risks and the necessary motivation to bring about changes in society.

Princess of Girona Foundation Scientific Research Award is designed to recognize young scientists (including human and social scientists) with outstanding projects or research experiences in their discipline that are enterprising, innovative and show strong potential for future development. Marc Schneeberger Pane, Assistant Professor at Yale Physiology is the 2023 recipient.

The Schneeberger Pané Laboratory is interested in the neurobiology of homeostasis. In particular the lab is interested in understanding how structural-molecular-functional crosstalk exists between the neuronal vascular and immune systems in the brain to permit behavior and as a result life. Moreover, the lab is taking an unbiased approach trying to understand first at the whole mount level how shifts in homeostasis shift the different systems to transition from physiology to pathophysiology. By doing so, we aim at deciphering the adaptive processes that the neurovascular unit engages with to counteract the initial shift. Uncovering the molecular mechanisms responsible for such transitions and how to override them might result into new effective therapeutics for complex disorders.