Articles about 'Christine Holt'

Professor Vasily Belokurov and Professor Christine Holt, both from the University of Cambridge, are among ten scientists awarded the Kavli Prize 2026, one of the world’s largest scientific prizes. 

Christine Holt knew she’d solved one of the key puzzles of how brains wire-up, but convincing others was no easy matter.

The Brain Prize 2023 is awarded for critical insights into the molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity.

Researchers have identified a new mechanism controlling brain development: that neurons not only ‘smell’ chemicals in their environment, but also ‘feel’ their way through the developing brain. 

How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how the brain ‘wires up’, and what it might be able to tell us about degeneration in later life.