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.

2018 Fellows

Andrés Bendesky, M.D., Ph.D.

An organismic approach to study exploratory behavior

Institution

  • Columbia University

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J. Nicholas Betley, PhD

Deciphering the neural circuits that mediate pain

Institution

  • University of Pennsylvania

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Denise Cai, Ph.D.

Circuit dynamics of linking and separating aversive memories

Institution

  • Mount Sinai Health System

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Xin Duan, Ph.D.

Decoding Roles of Combinatorial Cadherins in Retinal Circuit Assembly

Institution

  • University of California, San Francisco

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Junjie Guo, Ph.D.

Mapping the neuronal RNA zipcodes

Institution

  • Yale University

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Mark Harnett, Ph.D.

Dissecting Dendritic Contributions to Associative Cortical Computations

Institution

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Weizhe Hong, Ph.D.

Dissecting the Amygdala Circuitry Underlying Social Behavioral Decisions

Institution

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Aashish Manglik, Ph.D.

Molecular mechanisms of neuromodulatory G protein-coupled receptor signaling

Institution

  • University of California, San Francisco

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Joseph Parker, Ph.D.

Neural Architecture of a Social Symbiosis

Institution

  • California Institute of Technology

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Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D.

Cognitive Flexibility in Prefrontal Microcircuits

Institution

  • The Rockefeller University

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Celine Riera, Ph.D.

Regulation of Systemic Homeostasis by Olfactory Sensory Perception

Institution

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Simon Sponberg, Ph.D.

Encoding and dynamics of a comprehensive spike-resolved motor program for flight

Institution

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

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Hongdian Yang, Ph.D.

Neuromodulatory Regulation of Tactile Perception

Institution

  • University of California, Riverside

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