Recent IBG graduate Richard Border won the Dosier/Muenzinger Award for Outstanding Contribution to Basic Research.
Richard Border, who was one of IBG's Winter 2019 graduates, was nominated by his mentors Soo Rhee and Matt Keller for this听award. They note that Richard is one of the 鈥渂rightest, most conscientious, most generous and hardest working graduate students听we have ever encountered in our combined ~35 years at the University of Colorado.鈥� 听He has been an extraordinarily productive听researcher, with an impressive publication record in high-impact journals. 听One of his articles showed that over 1000 previous听鈥渃andidate gene鈥� studies on major depression were wrong. This paper has already garnered numerous citations, and was also the听subject of a popular press article in听The Atlantic.听His research record is one that an early career faculty member should be proud听of, much less a graduate student. 听In addition, Richard obtained a Master鈥檚 degree in Applied Math while obtaining his PhD in our听department, has been awarded NIMH training grants every year he was eligible, and has received prestigious post-doc offers. Congratulations, Richard!听