Fellows
KLINGENSTEIN FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN NEUROSCIENCE
The Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The fellowship awards promote high-risk, and potentially high-reward, projects. Aimed at advancing cutting-edge investigations, the awards are presented to highly promising, early career scientists. At this critical juncture in their careers, funding can be a challenge.2025 Fellows
Salil Bidaye, Ph.D.
Neural Circuit Mechanisms for Regulating Postural Stability
Institution
- Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Sebastian Choi, Ph.D.
Unraveling the Cancer-Neuron Crosstalk: Pathological Interactions Between Cancer and Pain Circuits
Institution
- UT Southwestern Medical Center
Carolyn Elya, Ph.D.
Leveraging Nature’s “Zombies” to Unearth Principles of Animal Nervous Systems
Institution
- Harvard University
Tristan Geiller, Ph.D.
Contextual Computations in the Subiculum: From Circuits to Disorders
Institution
- Yale University
Xin Gu, Ph.D.
Elucidating the Role of the Midnolin-Proteasome Pathway in the Central Nervous System
Institution
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Laura Gwilliams, Ph.D.
The Dynamic Neural Code of Speech Comprehension
Institution
- Stanford University
Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.
Recovering Cognition After Cortical Damage
Institution
- New York University
Aaron Kuan, Ph.D.
Multiscale Functional Connectomics: A New Paradigm for Mapping the Brain
Institution
- Yale University
Changyang Linghu, Ph.D.
Decoding Memory Codes by Large-Scale Prediction of Immediate Early Gene Expression
Institution
- University of Michigan
Quynh Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.
Inhibitory Control of Hyperexcitability
Institution
- Vanderbilt University
Justin O'Hare, Ph.D.
Investigating Intracellular Ca2+ Release in Dendrites in Vivo
Institution
- University of Colorado
Debosmita Sardar, Ph.D.
Glial Epigenetic Encoding of Odor Sensory Information
Institution
- University of Colorado
Carl Schoonover, Ph.D.
Neurobiology of Unreinforced Learning
Institution
- Allen Institute
2024 Fellows
Vineet Augustine, Ph.D.
Brainwide networks for internal state mediated behavior
Institution
- University of California, San Diego
Jeeyun Chung, Ph.D.
Cellular and molecular basis of lipid metabolism in the brain
Institution
- Harvard University
Linlin Fan, Ph.D.
All-optical interrogation of endocannabinoid-mediated inhibitory synaptic plasticity during learning
Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jordan Farrell, Ph.D.
Hijacking synchronous brain states in hyperexcitability
Institution
- Boston Childrens Hospital
Anna K. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Leveraging individual variability to identify and promote neural signatures of good memory
Institution
- University of Washington
Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, Ph.D.
Neural circuit mechanisms underlying retrospective learning
Institution
- University of California, San Francisco
Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Ph.D.
Epigenetic mechanisms controlling neuronal excitability
Institution
- Cornell University
Anders Nelson, Ph.D.
Discovering Spinal Feedback Circuits for Skilled Behavior
Institution
- New York University
Jessica Osterhout, Ph.D.
Why does sickness hurt?
Institution
- University of Utah
Neşet Özel, Ph.D.
Developmental reprogramming of innate behavior
Institution
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Ph.D.
Neural dynamics of social competence
Institution
- University of Florida
Kartik Pattabiraman, M.D., Ph.D.
Unraveling genomic mechanisms of human brain connectivity using in vivo epigenetic editing
Institution
- Yale University
Elizabeth Pollina, Ph.D.
Activity-Dependent Genome Integrity in Neuronal Plasticity and Disease
Institution
- Washington University in St. Louis
Kapil V. Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Establishing a new principle of neuromodulation through plasma-membrane bound neuroproteasomes
Institution
- Columbia University
Param Priya Singh, Ph.D.
Neuroprotective mechanisms of killifish diapause
Institution
- University of California, San Francisco
Herbert Zheng Wu, Ph.D.
Neural Basis of Leader-Follower Dynamics in Cooperative Behavior
Institution
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2023 Fellows
Sarah Ackerman, Ph.D.
Glial modulation of developmental and pathological circuit plasticity
Institution
- Washington University in St. Louis
Arkarup Banerjee, Ph.D.
Cortical Circuit Mechanisms for Vocal Interactions
Institution
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ritchie Chen, Ph.D.
Understanding emotions by studying brain-body pathways
Institution
- University of California, San Francisco
SueYeon Chung, Ph.D.
Probing brain functions from neural populations via geometric analysis and machine learning
Institution
- New York University
Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Ph.D.
Cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying visual shape perception
Institution
- Columbia University
Vikram Gadagkar, Ph.D.
Courtship as a Window into the Neural Mechanisms of Performance Evaluation
Institution
- Columbia University
Fenna Krienen, Ph.D.
Reconstructing the developmental basis of cellular innovations in primate brains
Institution
- Princeton University
Huaijin Ken Leon Loh, Ph.D.
Peripheral Synapses: Illuminating molecules connecting nerves with organs
Institution
- Yale University
Brittany D. Needham, Ph.D.
The mechanism of the neuroactive gut-derived bacterial metabolite 4EPS
Institution
- Indiana University School of Medicine
Lu Sun, Ph.D.
What do axons do in myelination?
Institution
- UT Southwestern Medical Center
Emily Sylwestrak, Ph.D.
Cell type specific reward computations across multiple timescales
Institution
- University of Oregon
Brandon Weissbourd, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of robustness in jellyfish neural networks
Institution
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Yackle, M.D., Ph.D.
The Source of Breathing and How it is Volitionally Usurped and Coordinated with Phonation
Institution
- University of California, San Francisco
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