The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Julius Axelrod Prize to Huda Akil, PhD, of the University of Michigan during Neuroscience 2019, SfN's annual meeting and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Donald B. Lindsley Prize to Brian Sweis, PhD. Supported by the Grass Foundation, the prize recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis in the area of general behavioral neuroscience.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to Lauren Mackenzie Reynolds, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Sorbonne Université in Paris. The Nemko Prize recognizes a young neuroscientist for his or her PhD thesis that advances the understanding of molecular, genetic or cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain function and cognition.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the Grass Foundation have established two endowments to ensure long-term support for the Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture and the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Jacob P. Waletzky Award to Thomas Kash, PhD, at Neuroscience 2019. The award, supported by the Waletzky Award Prize Fund and the Waletzky Family, is given to a young scientist whose independent research has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of drug addiction.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) announced the 15 neuroscience trainees in the inaugural class of the Leadership Development Program (LDP). This two-year pilot program, supported in part by the Dana Foundation, will offer professional development training for exceptional trainees and future leaders in the field of brain science.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced that Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, and Julia Sliwa, PhD, an investigator at the Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris, will receive this year’s Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Awards.

John Rinzel, PhD, will receive the 2019 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. The prize, supported by the Swartz Foundation, honors an individual whose work has produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience or who has made a particularly noteworthy recent advance to the field.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present its highest honor, the Ralph W.Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, to Michael Greenberg, PhD, and Catherine Dulac, PhD.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, with this year’s Young Investigator Award. The award, supported by the pharmaceutical company Sunovion, recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions by a young neuroscientist who has demonstrated scholarly independence.