BYI Erin Schuman Honored with 2026 HFSP Nakasone Award

Professor Erin Schuman, PhD, (1996 BYI) Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany, received the 2026 HFSP Nakasone Award. Prof. Schuman is honored for her groundbreaking discoveries related to the function and plasticity of neuronal synapses, their mRNA triggered function, and change during memory formation. 

The HFSP Nakasone Award was established in 2010 to honor scientists who have made key breakthroughs in fields at the forefront of the life sciences. It recognizes the vision of Japan’s former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who envisioned and created the International Human Frontier Science Program beginning with a charter by the global leaders of the G7 nations in 1987.