The Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology (SCGDB) announced that Justin Cotney, Ph.D., associate professor in the UConn School of Medicine’s Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, will receive its 2023 Marylou Buyse Distinguished Scientist in Craniofacial Research Award. Cotney will be honored on October 10 at the Society’s 46th annual meeting in in Ohio at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where he will receive a commemorative plaque and deliver a plenary lecture on his functional genomics of craniofacial development research.