The Grass Foundation-ANA Award in Neuroscience was established in 2007 to recognize outstanding young physician-scientists conducting research in basic or clinical neuroscience. The award is given at the annual ANA meeting in the Fall.
Claire Dudley Clelland is the 2024 winner of the Grass Foundation-ANA Award in Neuroscience. Dr. Clelland is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology. As a neurologist, she specializes in caring for patients with dementia and cognitive symptoms at the UCSF Memory & Aging Center. Her lab at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences develops novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Her current work centers on creating novel CRISPR gene therapies for genetic forms of dementia and ALS, utilizing patient iPSCs to model disease, advanced sequencing technologies and cutting-edge CRISPR technologies to develop first-in-class gene therapies for CNS diseases. In addition, the Clelland lab is committed to promoting equity and justice in science in medicine. One of the pillars of the lab is the mentoring and advancement of trainees from underrepresented backgrounds to become the next generation of scientific leaders.
Previous winners of the Award have included:
2023 Dr. Yvette Wong, Northwestern University
2022 Derek Narendra, National Institutes of Health
2021 Alberto Serrano-Pozo, Massachusetts General Hospital
2020 Eoin Paul Flanagan, Mayo Clinic
2019 Ethan Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania
2018 Michael Wilson, University of California, San Francisco
2017 Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Massachusetts General Hospital
2016 Aasef Shaikh, Case Western Reserve University
2015 Dena Dubal, University of California, San Francisco
2014 Joshua Shulman, Baylor College of Medicine
2013 Andrew McKeon, Mayo Clinic
2012 Sydney Cash, Massachusetts General Hospital
2007 Jack Parent, University of Michigan
The American Neurological Association, founded in 1875, is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences; and to expanding both our understanding of diseases of the nervous system and our ability to treat them.