February 26, 2026
Karthik Shekhar was one of seven UC Berkeley faculty to be awarded the prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships. The fellowship is granted annually to “honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders,” according to the Sloan Foundation. Shekhar was recognized for his research using single-cell genomic approaches to study how neurons are organized and develop, especially in the visual system.