Monte Westerfield, PhD
Dr. Monte Westerfield is a Professor in the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon. He directs the Zebrafish International Resource Center and ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database. He studies Usher syndrome, the leading cause of deafblindness in humans. He also participates in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network providing diagnoses to patients with ultra-rare diseases. Monte received an A.B. from Princeton University in Biophysics and a Ph.D. from Duke University Medical School in Physiology and Pharmacology. He trained as a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany and in Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. He has served as Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and on advisory councils to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders and the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health. He has been awarded Sloan, Fogarty and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Talbot Award, the McKnight Development Award, the Medical Research Foundation Discovery Award, the Nüsslein-Volhard award, the Streisinger award, and the Von Humboldt Prize. Monte is a Fellow of the AAAS.
