Fellowship Programs

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

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  • Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

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Sebastian Choi, Ph.D.

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

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  • UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Carolyn Elya, Ph.D.

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

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  • Harvard University

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Tristan Geiller, Ph.D.

Contextual Computations in the Subiculum: From Circuits to Disorders

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  • Yale University

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Xin Gu, Ph.D.

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

Institution

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Laura Gwilliams, Ph.D.

The Dynamic Neural Code of Speech Comprehension

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  • Stanford University

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Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.

Recovering Cognition After Cortical Damage

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  • New York University

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Aaron Kuan, Ph.D.

Multiscale Functional Connectomics: A New Paradigm for Mapping the Brain

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  • Yale University

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Changyang Linghu, Ph.D.

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

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  • University of Michigan

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Quynh Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.

Inhibitory Control of Hyperexcitability

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  • Vanderbilt University

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Justin O'Hare, Ph.D.

Investigating Intracellular Ca2+ Release in Dendrites in Vivo

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  • University of Colorado

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Debosmita Sardar, Ph.D.

Glial Epigenetic Encoding of Odor Sensory Information

Institution

  • University of Colorado

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Carl Schoonover, Ph.D.

Neurobiology of Unreinforced Learning

Institution

  • Allen Institute

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