UC Berkeley Professor Michael Yartsev named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Michael Yartsev, an associate professor of neuroscience and bioengineering at UC Berkeley, is the campus’s newest Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, the HHMI announced today.

Yartsev is among 26 of the nation’s leading scientists to be named new HHMI Investigators. The honor comes with significant research investment that enables Investigators to “push the boundaries of science,” the HHMI said in a press release.