Nagham Farah receives prestigious 2025 Henderson Award

August 22, 2025

The Graduate Programs Committee has selected Nagham Farah from the Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate program as the recipient of the 2025 Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program. The title of her dissertation was “Cerebellar Hemisphere Formation: Purkinje Cell Diversity and the FOXP Code”.  The award was established in honor of Dr. Edward G. Henderson, a member of the Pharmacology Department and one of the first faculty members of the University of Connecticut Health Center.  Nagham did her Thesis work in Dr. James’s Li lab and, upon graduation, accepted a postdoctoral position at Yale University.