The National Academy of Medicine has elected Sergiu Pasca, MD, the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor II of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, to its membership — one of the highest honors in medicine.
Pasca, who is also the Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program, was chosen “for seminal contributions to the development and study of brain organoids and assembloids that have provided a new understanding of human brain development and plasticity as well as brain dysfunction in disorders such as autism and schizophrenia,” according to the academy… Continue reading.