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    Oct 03, 2022
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    Neuroscience 2011 Lecturer Wins 2022 Nobel Prize Tsega 011123
    Max Planck Institute geneticist Svante Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his pioneer work sequencing the Neanderthal genome and giving rise to the field of paleogenomics.
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    Oct 03, 2022
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    Neuroscience 2011 Lecturer Wins 2022 Nobel Prize
    Max Planck Institute geneticist Svante Pääbo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his pioneer work sequencing the Neanderthal genome and giving rise to the field of paleogenomics.
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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!
  • Sabine Kastner
    Jul 21, 2022
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    Next JNeurosci Editor-in-Chief Announced

    The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sabine Kastner as the next Editor-in-Chief of JNeurosci, the most-cited journal in the field of neuroscience.

  • 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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    Jun 27, 2022
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    SfN Election Results: Meet Your New Leaders

    The Society for Neuroscience extends congratulations to its newly elected officers and councilors. The incoming leaders will begin their terms at Neuroscience 2022 in San Diego.

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    Jun 01, 2022
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    SfN Members Win 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

    SfN members Harry T. Orr and Huda Y. Zoghbi, alongside fellow neuroscientists Jean-Louis Mandel and Christopher A. Walsh, have been awarded the 2022 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of brain disorders. The laureates will share $1 million.

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    May 19, 2022
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    2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

    The 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize is being awarded to Larry Abbott, PhD, of Columbia University, Emery Neal Brown, MD, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital, Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego, and Haim Sompolinsky, PhD, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University, for their seminal contributions to the fields of computational and theoretical neuroscience.

  • 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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