Fellowship Programs

KLINGENSTEIN-SIMONS FELLOWSHIP AWARDS IN NEUROSCIENCE

Through its collaboration with the Simons Foundation, the Klingenstein-Simons 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.

2023 Fellows

Sarah Ackerman, Ph.D.

Glial modulation of developmental and pathological circuit plasticity

Institution

  • Washington University in St. Louis

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Arkarup Banerjee, Ph.D.

Cortical Circuit Mechanisms for Vocal Interactions

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  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Ritchie Chen, Ph.D.

Understanding emotions by studying brain-body pathways

Institution

  • University of California, San Francisco

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SueYeon Chung, Ph.D.

Probing brain functions from neural populations via geometric analysis and machine learning

Institution

  • New York University

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Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Ph.D.

Cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying visual shape perception

Institution

  • Columbia University

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Vikram Gadagkar, Ph.D.

Courtship as a Window into the Neural Mechanisms of Performance Evaluation

Institution

  • Columbia University

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Fenna Krienen, Ph.D.

Reconstructing the developmental basis of cellular innovations in primate brains

Institution

  • Princeton University

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Huaijin Ken Leon Loh, Ph.D.

Peripheral Synapses: Illuminating molecules connecting nerves with organs

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  • Yale University

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Brittany D. Needham, Ph.D.

The mechanism of the neuroactive gut-derived bacterial metabolite 4EPS

Institution

  • Indiana University School of Medicine

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Lu Sun, Ph.D.

What do axons do in myelination?

Institution

  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Emily Sylwestrak, Ph.D.

Cell type specific reward computations across multiple timescales

Institution

  • University of Oregon

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Brandon Weissbourd, Ph.D.

Mechanisms of robustness in jellyfish neural networks

Institution

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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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Our Fellows: View an alphabetical list of all fellows.
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