Vance Lemmon, chair in developmental neuroscience at UM, has earned the Lifetime Achievement Award in Neural Regeneration, joining the ranks of only five prior recipients. Lemmon has aided the development of phenotypic screening methods for the primary neurons of the central nervous system.

Lemmon’s screening methods have advanced the understanding of the adult mammalian central nervous system and identified candidates for regeneration strategies. Early in his career, Lemmon developed key antibodies that allowed for the study of adhesion molecules in axonal outgrowth which generated wide acceptance in the regeneration field.

• Vance Lemmon