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Jul 26, 2024Press Release
The Society for Neuroscience extends congratulations to its newly elected officers and councilors. The incoming leaders will begin their terms at Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago.
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Jul 17, 2024Press Release
From October 5–9, thousands of neuroscientists from across the globe will convene in Chicago for the first time since 2019. Neuroscience 2024, the world’s largest annual meeting of researchers and clinicians exploring the brain and nervous system, will feature more than 10,500 presentations covering topics such as brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, neurodegenerative disorders, treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders, and GLP-1 agonist effects on the brain.
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Jul 15, 2024Press Release
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has received $128,000 from the estate of James L. Roberts, PhD. With the funds, SfN Council voted to create a new long-term endowed fund, The James L. Roberts Fund, and will use the income from its investments to create and perpetually fund James L. Roberts Trainee Professional Development Awards (TPDAs) beginning at Neuroscience 2024.
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Jun 12, 2024Press ReleaseNancy Kanwisher, Doris Tsao, and Winrich Freiwald have been awarded the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. The award recognizes their discovery of a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces.
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Jun 11, 2024Press Release
SfN member Yang Dan, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded the 2024 Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize for her ground-breaking research on elucidating the brain circuits that control behavior with a special emphasis on those neuronal networks that control sleep.
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May 09, 2024Press Release
Cornelia “Cori” Bargmann, PhD, of The Rockefeller University, and Gerald “Gerry” Rubin, PhD, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, have been awarded the 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize. The award recognizes their pioneering work in elucidating the organization of circuits in behavior, and for their work in developing new genetics tools, which have advanced the entire field of neuroscience.
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Apr 05, 2024Press Release
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) strongly advocates for the responsible and ethical use of animals in biomedical research, including the use of non-human primates (NHPs). NHPs continue to serve a critical role in advancing scientific understanding of the brain.
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Mar 05, 2024Press Release
Professor Larry Abbott at Columbia University, Professor Terrence Sejnowski at the Salk Institute, and Professor Haim Sompolinsky at Harvard University and the Hebrew University were awarded the Brain Prize 2024 for their foundational work in computational and theoretical neuroscience. Each awardee has been a member of SfN for over 30 years.
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Feb 09, 2024Press ReleaseThe Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has selected 10 members from a highly competitive applicant pool to participate in the Society’s annual Capitol Hill Day on March 12–14, 2024.
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Nov 22, 2023Press Release
SfN Past Presidents Eve Marder and Huda Akil were each awarded the National Medal of Science by President Joe Biden in a ceremony on October 24. The National Medal of Science the highest recognition the U.S. bestows on scientists and engineers.
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