K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
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Institution
University of California,
San Francisco, CA
Council Dates: October 2013 - May 2014
Independent Position: University of California- Irvine
Robert Hunt was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. In the lab of Dr. Scott Baraban, his research focused on how cortical interneurons derived from mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) functionally incorporate into the postnatal brain. He earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Kentucky and a B.S. in biology from Liberty University. Currently, Dr. Hunt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California Irvine.