Nicole Tsai, MD/PhD Candidate at UCSF receives David and Joyce Copenhagen Prize for Best Published Paper in Visual Sciences

We are pleased to announce that Nicole Tsai from Dr. Xin Duan’s lab has won the David and Joyce Copenhagen Prize for Best Published Paper in Visual Sciences for papers published in 2022. Nicole is being recognized for her Nature Neuroscience paper describing the development of Trans-Seq to identify retinotectal synapses.

This award was established to recognize a UCSF graduate student, postdoctoral fellow or clinical fellow mentored by a faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology who has published outstanding work in the area of laboratory visual sciences.

Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01068-8

She presented her findings of this work at a special lecture during the Department’s annual Research Day which was held this year on May 25, 2023.