Erich Jarvis

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Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University was honored with the Alan T. Waterman Award in 2002, the National Science Foundation's highest award for young investigators. Jarvis, unsatisfied with the stimulus-and-response behavioral research going on in many labs in 2002, joined a Rockefeller lab, studying avian brains to learn imitating sound and to apply his molecular biology experience to look at the brain in new ways.

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Lyndon Mitnaul

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Lyndon Mitnaul, the son of an African-American father and a Japanese mother and the youngest of seven children, did his PhD in biological chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. He is a research fellow in the division of cardiovascular diseases at Merck Research Laboratories and is currently involved in identifying new targets for treating atherosclerosis, using silencing RNA as an ultrahigh throughput search tool.

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First-timers

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Mexico and Brazil debuted on the list of the top countries for academic research in the year 2007. The governments of Brazil and Mexico have increased their science funding and the demographics have worked in favor of these countries.

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