SfN has announced that Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD; Teodora Stoica; and Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD, will receive this year’s Science Education and Outreach Awards, which include the Science Educator Award and the Next Generation Award.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Jacob P. Waletzky Award to Michael Bruchas, PhD, of the Washington University School of Medicine, at Neuroscience 2018, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

For the second year, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) awarded a record number of Trainee Professional Development Awards.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of women in neuroscience during Neuroscience 2018, SfN’s annual meeting and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health.

SfN will award the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience to William Muñoz, PhD, a student in the MD-PhD program at the New York University School of Medicine, for his development and application of a method to record from interneurons deep in the cerebral cortex and identify both their morphology and their function. 

The Lasker Awards is considered one of the top biomedical research prizes in the United States.

The award recognizes outstanding efforts of mentors in encouraging the next generation of innovators.

The Foundation joins the growing list of site partners from around the world in partnership with SfN.

SfN's 2017 Public Advocacy Award is given to leaders dedicated to advancing biomedical research.

The Society for Neuroscience thanks Congress for providing an additional $3 billion in funding for biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the FY2018 omnibus appropriations bill.