Congratulations Dr. Summer Thyme for being awarded esteemed Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Neuroscience!

PMI affiliate and first-year assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Dr. Summer Thyme, is UAB’s first recipient of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship! Dr. Thyme’s work focuses investigating pathways regulated by genes associated with psychiatric disorders (epilepsy, schizophrenia, and autism). This award will support Summer’s work to establish new approaches in drug discovery and precision medicine associated with neuropsychiatric disease, specifically rare genetic mutations that have a clear role in illness.