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Baljit S. Khakh

Neuroscientist and professor at UCLA

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Education and career

Baljit Khakh completed his Ph.D. at University of Cambridge in 1995 in the laboratory of Professor Patrick PA Humphrey. He then completed his training in the laboratory of Professor Graeme Henderson at the University of Bristol as a Glaxo-Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, and then in the laboratory of Professor Henry A. Lester and Professor Norman Davidson at California Institute of Technology as a Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Research Fellow. In 2001, Khakh became Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. In 2006, Khakh moved to the University of California, Los Angeles where he is Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology. In 2013, Khakh was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award. In 2018, he was awarded the Paul G. Allen Distinguished Investigator Award. In 2019, Khakh received a R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from NINDS. In 2023, Khakh was appointed as the Eleanor I. Leslie Chair in Neuroscience and was awarded the 134th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture. He has presented over 250 research lectures around the world, including multiple Keynote and Plenary lectures.

Khakh was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025.

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