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.

2026 Fellows

Caroline B. Albertin, Ph.D.

Mechanisms of Neurogenesis in the Largest Invertebrate Brain

Institution

Harvard University

Fellows

KLINGENSTEIN FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN NEUROSCIENCE

2026 Fellows

Caroline B. Albertin, Ph.D.

Mechanisms of Neurogenesis in the Largest Invertebrate Brain

Institution

Corey Allard, Ph.D.

Neural Control of Foreign Organelles

Institution

Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D.

Neural basis of predictive regulation of immune function

Institution

Tom P. Franken, M.D., Ph.D.

Neural mechanisms of perceptual inference

Institution

Jonathan Green, Ph.D.

How we learn from our mistakes: new insights from an error-signaling cell type

Institution

Shixuan Liu, Ph.D.

Mechanism of the Seasonal Clock

Institution

Ian A. Oldenburg, Ph.D.

How Multidimensional Neural Activity Drives Action

Institution

Daniel Pederick, Ph.D.

HOW IS TONOTOPIC ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED IN THE CENTRAL AUDITORY SYSTEM?

Institution

Chen Ran, Ph.D.

Toward a unified logic of somatosensation and interoception

Institution

Yuta Senzai, M.D., Ph.D.

Interaction between visuo-motor maps and the internal compass during REM sleep

Institution

Rachel L. Wolfson, M.D., Ph.D.

Mapping Peripheral and Central Cardiac Pain Circuits

Institution

Stephen Zhang, Ph.D.

How to synchronize 20,000 clock neurons

Institution

Christopher A. Zimmerman, Ph.D.

Neural algorithms for learning across long delays

Institution

2025 Fellows

Salil Bidaye, Ph.D.

Neural Circuit Mechanisms for Regulating Postural Stability

Institution

Sebastian Choi, Ph.D.

Unraveling the Cancer-Neuron Crosstalk: Pathological Interactions Between Cancer and Pain Circuits

Institution

Carolyn Elya, Ph.D.

Leveraging Nature’s “Zombies” to Unearth Principles of Animal Nervous Systems

Institution

Tristan Geiller, Ph.D.

Contextual Computations in the Subiculum: From Circuits to Disorders

Institution

Xin Gu, Ph.D.

Elucidating the Role of the Midnolin-Proteasome Pathway in the Central Nervous System

Institution

Laura Gwilliams, Ph.D.

The Dynamic Neural Code of Speech Comprehension

Institution

Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.

Recovering Cognition After Cortical Damage

Institution

Aaron Kuan, Ph.D.

Multiscale Functional Connectomics: A New Paradigm for Mapping the Brain

Institution

Changyang Linghu, Ph.D.

Decoding Memory Codes by Large-Scale Prediction of Immediate Early Gene Expression

Institution

Quynh Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.

Inhibitory Control of Hyperexcitability

Institution

Justin O'Hare, Ph.D.

Investigating Intracellular Ca2+ Release in Dendrites in Vivo

Institution

Debosmita Sardar, Ph.D.

Glial Epigenetic Encoding of Odor Sensory Information

Institution

Carl Schoonover, Ph.D.