WASHINGTON — Edward F. Chang, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will be awarded the 2025 Gruber neuroscience Prize. The award celebrates his work toward understanding how the brain encodes the sounds and movements of spoken language.

Michelle Monje, professor of pediatric neuro-oncology at Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Frank Winkler, professor of neuro-oncology at Heidelberg University, were awarded the Brain Prize 2025 for pioneering the field of cancer neuroscience.

SfN Past-President Huda Akil, PhD, Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished University Professor of Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, and research professor, Michigan Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan, has been awarded the 2023 Gruber Neuroscience Prize.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor several highly accomplished researchers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience.

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.

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.

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.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Julius Axelrod Prize to Stephen Waxman, MD, PhD, of Yale University.

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.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience to Marley Kass, PhD, of Rutgers University.