Cardozo Pinto, a recent graduate of the neurosciences PhD program, has received the 2024 Weintraub Award for exceptional achievement in graduate studies from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. The award, which includes a $2,500 honorarium, recognizes his thesis research which revealed that the brain integrates inverse dopamine and serotonin signals to drive reward learning, thus uncovering a long-hypothesized oppositional relationship between dopamine and serotonin signaling. Cardozo Pinto is now a postdoctoral scholar in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Learn more here.
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