Dr Charlotte Stagg receives Sieratzki UK-Israel Early Career Researcher’s Prize

Earlier this week, Dr Charlotte Stagg was awarded the UK Early Career Researcher’s Prize, one of four prestigious Sieratzki UK-Israel Prizes for Advances in Neuroscience – an initiative by the Sieratzki family, supported by the British Neuroscience Associations (BNA) and the Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN). The prizes aim to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of neuroscientists working within the UK and Israel.

Charlie’s research group is based between two world-leading research centres in the University – the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA) and the Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB).  They use cutting-edge imaging techniques in combination with non-invasive brain stimulation approaches to study motor plasticity, with the ultimate aim of developing new rehabilitation tools to maximise recovery after stroke.

Charlie travelled to the annual meeting of the ISFN in, Eilat, Israel to receive her award on 10 December and then gave a talk on ‘The neurochemistry of learning, and relearning, human motor skills’. “It was a great honour to be awarded this inaugural SUKIS early career prize,” she said. “I am hugely grateful to the British Neuroscience Association, the ISFN and the Sieratzki Charitable Foundation for the award, particularly as it gave me the opportunity to travel to Eilat, meet Israeli colleagues and participate in what was a fantastic neuroscientific meeting. I am, of course, very grateful to my research group for all their hard work and my funders, particularly the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, for funding our ongoing research.”