Principal Investigator
Michael Higley, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
Dr. Higley studied behavioral neuroscience at Cornell University. He then completed his MD and PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Diego Contreras at the University of Pennsylvania.
He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School. In 2010, Dr. Higley joined the faculty of the Yale Department of Neuroscience and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair (CNNR). He received tenure in 2020 and was promoted to Professor in 2024. He has received numerous honors for his research, including a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Klingenstein Fellowship, and most recently the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. Dr. Higley has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is a member of the Wu Tsai Institute. He also serves as an Associate Director for the Yale MD-PhD Program. To support the development and application of optical imaging in biomedicine, Dr. Higley founded the Advanced Microscopy at Yale program in 2024.
Professor - Yale University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow - Harvard Medical School
MD-PhD - University of Pennsylvania
BA - Cornell University
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