Fong has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship and a Marie-Curie Fellowship. Over the next two years, Fong Kuan will use the fellowship to understand how MGE interneurons laminate and mature in the developing mouse neocortex. Kinga has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her research on interneuron apoptosis during development. Over the next four years, Kinga will use the fellowship to decipher the signalling pathways behind the fate decision of interneurons and to investigate what happens when this process goes wrong.