Recognizing her major contributions to our understanding of how the brain recognizes human faces, the 2018 Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize has been awarded to Doris Tsao, Caltech professor of biology, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience Leadership Chair, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and director of the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience.