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    Nov 14, 2022
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    Society for Neuroscience 2022 Promotion of Women in Neuroscience Awards
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor several highly accomplished researchers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience.
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    Nov 11, 2022
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    Donors Enable Record Number of TPDA Awards to Neuroscience 2022
    Thanks to the generosity of donors to the Friends of SfN Fund, foundation and corporate supporters, and SfN Council, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is supporting a record 272 neuroscience trainees to attend Neuroscience 2022 through the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) program.
  • The Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize 2022 Awarded to Robert C. Malenka
    Jul 10, 2022
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    The Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize 2022 Awarded to Robert C. Malenka
    SfN member Robert C. Malenka, MD, PhD, Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University has been awarded the 2022 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize for his ground-breaking research in identifying the mechanically distinct forms of synaptic plasticity present in the human brain.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Stephen Waxman Receives Julius Axelrod Prize
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Julius Axelrod Prize to Stephen Waxman, MD, PhD, of Yale University.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Vikram Gadagkar and Johannes Kohl Chosen as Recipients of Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has named Vikram Gadagkar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Jesse H. Goldberg’s lab at Cornell University, and Johannes Kohl, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Catherine Dulac's lab at Harvard University, as the recipients of this year’s Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Lisa Giocomo and Christopher Harvey Receive Young Investigator Award
    Lisa Giocomo, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Christopher Harvey, PhD, assistant professor in the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology, have been selected to receive this year’s Young Investigator Award.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Award for Education in Neuroscience Presented to Erik Herzog and Gönül Peker
    SfN will award Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology at Washington University and director of the St. Louis Neuroscience Pipeline Program, and Gönül Peker, PhD, professor emeritus at Ege University, Turkey, this year's Award for Education in Neuroscience.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Society for Neuroscience Awards Lindsley Prize to Marley Kass
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience to Marley Kass, PhD, of Rutgers University.
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    William Muñoz Receives Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience
    SfN will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to William Muñoz, PhD, a student in the MD-PhD program at the New York University School of Medicine, for his development and application of a method to record from interneurons deep in the cerebral cortex and identify both their morphology and their function. 
     
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    Nov 03, 2018
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    Society for Neuroscience Presents Science Education and Outreach Awards
    SfN has announced that Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD; Teodora Stoica; and Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD, will receive this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, which include the Science Educator Award and the Next Generation Award.
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