{"id":5507,"date":"2025-08-22T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:49:24","slug":"nagham-farah-receives-prestigious-2025-henderson-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/2025\/08\/22\/nagham-farah-receives-prestigious-2025-henderson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagham Farah receives prestigious 2025 Henderson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Nagham Farah receives prestigious 2025 Henderson Award<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>August 22, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo-269x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo-269x300.png 269w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo-917x1024.png 917w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo-768x857.png 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2023\/08\/Nagham_photo.png 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Graduate Programs Committee has selected <b>Nagham Farah<\/b> from the Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate program as the recipient of the 2025\u00a0<\/span>Henderson Award<span>. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program. The title of her dissertation was \u201cCerebellar Hemisphere Formation: Purkinje Cell Diversity and the FOXP Code\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The 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.\u00a0\u00a0Nagham did her Thesis work in Dr. James\u2019s Li lab and, upon graduation, accepted a postdoctoral position at Yale University.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program. The title of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 04:23:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/genetics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}