Alan Kanzer ’65CC, a prominent New York attorney, recently donated funds to create a postdoctoral program at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute that will support early-career scientists who pursue high-risk, high-reward research related to the mind, the brain, and behavior.
Participants in the new Kanzer Postdoctoral Fellowship program may be trained in a variety of disciplines and will be encouraged to carry out cutting-edge brain research under the mentorship of multiple faculty members. “Many of the most dramatic and important advances in science occur at the interfaces of disciplines and specialties,” says Daphna Shohamy, the director of the Zuckerman Institute. “The new fellowships provide a rare flexibility that we hope will attract the kinds of interdisciplinary minds and researchers that we want to join us.”
Kanzer, a member of the Zuckerman Institute’s board of advisers, has given generously to the institute in the past, including for its artist-in- residence and writer-in-residence programs, which bring renowned authors, musicians, and visual artists to Columbia to explore intersections between the arts and sciences.
