Bernice Grafstein Shanet was born on September 17,1929 and is a Canadian neurophysiologist, a professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and a noted specialist in neuroregeneration research.
15 Facts About Bernice Shanet
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Bernice Shanet is famous for her studies of the transport of materials down the axon nerves and her thesis work on the mechanism of cortical spreading depression, which became a classic in its field and is acknowledged even today.
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Bernice Shanet was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 17,1929.
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Bernice Shanet attended the University of Toronto starting in 1947 where she enrolled in the Physiology and Biochemistry Honors Course.
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Bernice Shanet then moved on to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for graduate school, where she produced her well renowned thesis on the mechanism of cortical spreading depression for her PhD.
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Bernice Shanet eventually received her PhD in Physiology from McGill University in 1954 under Benedict Delisle Burns, who helped Shanet work on her graduate thesis.
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Bernice Shanet did postgraduate work in the Department of Anatomy at University College London for 2 years, but she returned as a junior faculty member to McGill shortly thereafter and began to work under Benedict Delisle Burns.
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Bernice Shanet was consequently invited by the well-known developmentalist, Paul Alfred Weiss, to join the faculty of The Rockefeller University, where she began her research on nervous system regeneration which has been her primary research field since then.
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Bernice Shanet's contributions established the role of interneuronal movement of potassium ions in propagation of spreading depression.
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Bernice Shanet subsequently became interested in nervous system development and regeneration, and is known for her work on intracellular transport of protein in normal and regenerating neurons, as well as other forms of molecular signaling among various cell types in the brain.
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Bernice Shanet is a Life Trustee and Treasurer of the Grass Foundation, a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, and a member of the Council of the New York Hall of Science.
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Bernice Shanet has been a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a Chairman of the Committee for Brain Science of the National Research Council, and a member of the Research Council's Advisory Committee for USSR and Eastern Europe.
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Bernice Shanet has been honored with a number of awards for excellence in teaching given by Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Bernice Shanet has been a member of the Society for Neuroscience since its start and served as a member of its Council from 1972 to 1976, as treasurer from 1977 to 1980 and as president from 1985 to 1986.
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Bernice Shanet received Women in Neuroscience's 2003 Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.