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Shu Kit Eric Tam

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


DNAS Interdisciplinary Seed Grant · December 2025 - December 2027 Co-principal investigator · Awarded by: Duke Kunshan University Division of Natural and Applied Sciences (DNAS) · $2,800.00 Project title: Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Martian Photoperiod-induced Memory Disruption in Mice [with Prof. Pascal Grange (Duke Kunshan) and Prof. Sze Chai Kwok (Duke Kunshan) as co-PIs]
Kunshan Shuangchuang Innovative Leading Talent Program · July 2025 - June 2028 Principal investigator · Awarded by: Kunshan Science and Technology Bureau · $84,500.00 Project title: Brain Mechanisms of Sleep versus Wake Memory Consolidation and Their Regulation by Environmental Light
Provost Fund for Duke–Duke Kunshan University Collaboration · February 2025 - January 2027 Co-principal investigator · Awarded by: Duke University Provost Fund · $56,373.00 Project title: Optimizing the Operant Light Self-administration Paradigm in Laboratory Mice as a Potential Model for Human Behavioral Disorders [with Prof. Henry H. Yin (Duke) as co-PI]
Summer Research Program Grant · July 2024 - August 2024 Principal investigator · Awarded by: Duke Kunshan University · $11,500.00 Project title: Operant Light Seeking—an Animal Model for Behavioral Addiction