Awardee

Loren Frank, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

SFARI Scientific Review Board

Former Investigator, Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations: University of California, San Francisco
Website: cin.ucsf.edu/HTML/Loren_Frank.html

Publications

Cortical-hippocampal coupling during manifold exploration in motor cortex

Nature, December 14, 2022

J Kim, A Joshi, L. Frank, and K Ganguly

Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, October 31, 2022

AE Comrie, L. Frank, and K Kay

A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations

Nat Commun, October 12, 2022

AA Liu, S Henin, S Abbaspoor, A Bragin, E. Buffalo, JS Farrell, et al.

The Neurodata Without Borders ecosystem for neurophysiological data science

Elife, October 4, 2022

O Rübel, A Tritt, R Ly, BK Dichter, S Ghosh, L Niu, et al.

Projects

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Remapping across time, space and region

Funded Work

The neural substrates of memories and decisions

Funded Work

Featuring Loren Frank

Image of the hippocampus was taken with an ultra-widefield high-speed multiphoton laser microscope.

2025 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting Held in New York City

January 13, 2026

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SFARI Researchers Gather in Edinburgh for 2024 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting

October 30, 2024

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SFARI Autism Rat Models Consortium Awardees Announced

April 29, 2022

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Hippocampal Replay: Reflection on the Past or Planning for the Future?

November 30, 2021

Events

Sleep and Memory

Lecture

September 27, 2023

6–7 p.m. ET

Speaker

Loren Frank

Portrait photo of Loren Frank

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