MIT researcher wins grant for brain research

A researcher at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology has won a $200,000 grant to fund neurological research.

Alan Jasanoff, an associate at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research is one of four recipients of the bi-annual Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards, funded by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. Jasanoff is workgin to develop technology to improve the detection changing levels of calcium in brain cells.
(By Keith Reed, Globe staff)