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    Aug 01, 2022
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    SfN Welcomes its Newest Cohort of Neuroscience Scholars
    The Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) welcomes its 2022-2024 cohort on August 1, 2022. Combined with the Program’s past scholars (dating back to 1981), the NSP alumni network now encompasses over 1,200 underrepresented neuroscience researchers at all career stages!
  • 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.
  • Congratulations to the brain prize winners 2022. Silvia Arber (Switzerland), Martyn Goulding (USA/New Zealand), and Ole Kiehn (Denmark/Sweden). Who have revolutionized our understanding of the neuronal cell types and circuits that control movement. The Brain Prize, founded by the Lundbeck Foundation.
    Mar 03, 2022
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    SfN Members Win 2022 Brain Prize
    SfN members Silvia Arber, Ole Kiehn, and Martyn Goulding have been awarded the 2022 Brain Prize for mapping the neuronal cell types and circuits in the brain and spinal cord that control movement.
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    Feb 14, 2022
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    SfN Names 2022 Class of Early Career Policy Ambassadors

    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has selected 15 members from a highly competitive applicant pool to participate in the Society’s annual Capitol Hill Day on March 22–24, 2022.

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    Nov 03, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience Announces Fujifilm as Platinum Sponsor of Neuroscience 2021
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) gratefully acknowledges Fujifilm as the Platinum sponsor for SfN’s 50th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2021.
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    Nov 03, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience 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. The awards will be presented during Neuroscience 2021, SfN's annual meeting and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.
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    Nov 03, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience Outstanding Achievement Awards
    The Society of Neuroscience (SfN) will honor leading researchers who have made significant contributions to neuroscience — including the understanding of cognitive processes, drug addition, neuropharmacology, and theoretical models — with this year’s Outstanding Achievement Awards. The awards will be presented during SfN’s annual meeting.
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    Nov 03, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience Science Education and Outreach Awards
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present six neuroscientists with this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, comprising the Award for Education in Neuroscience, the Science Educator Award, and the Next Generation Awards. The awards will be presented during SfN’s annual meeting.
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    Nov 03, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience Early Career Awards
    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor seven early-career researchers who have demonstrated great originality and creativity in their work, which spans from nanometer scale maps of neuronal circuits controlling movements, to the interaction between brain waves and social behaviors and metabolic changes. The awards will be presented during Neuroscience 2021, SfN's annual meeting and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.
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    Nov 01, 2021
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    Society for Neuroscience Announces Jacob P. Waletzky Award

    The Society of Neuroscience (SfN) will honor Mary Kay Lobo, a professor in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, with this year’s Jacob P. Waletzky award.

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