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"I have two jobs: be the best scientist I can be and help cure society's racial disease."

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis received the 2015 Ernest Everett Just Award from the American Society for Cell Biology to recognize his outstanding scientific achievements as a minority scientist. Jarvis, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, delivered this essay at the ASCB meeting in San Diego in December.

Read the full essay.

Neurobiologist Erich Jarvis

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