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Prof. Mriganka Sur, born in Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and trained at IIT Kanpur, is a neuroscientist at MIT. He showed that the hearing part of the brain can be rewired to process vision, and his work contributed to the first approved treatment for Rett syndrome.
Key contributions
- Showed that the developing cortex can be rewired by new sensory input
- Research leading to trofinetide, approved for Rett syndrome in 2023
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2006)