March 22, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
Research Funding in Neuroscience: A Profile of the McKnight Endowment Fund, by Gabrielle Strobel, recounts the history of the McKnight Foundation’s neuroscience program, established in 1976. William L. McKnight, who endowed the foundation, became interested in how the brain works and how aging affects memory. The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience — originally a program at the McKnight Foundation — became a separate entity in 1986, and has supported more than 330 scientists, including four Nobel laureates. The publication discusses the fund’s early history, its impact on the study of neuroscience, the research of the scientists it has supported, and lessons to be learned from the fund’s history.
Publisher: Elsevier, 11830 Westline Industrial Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63146; (800) 545-2522; fax (800) 535-9935; http://www.elsevier.com; 170 pages; $59.95; ISBN 0-12-373645-5.
