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.

2021 Fellows

Frederick Bennett, M.D.

Targeting Microglia to Treat Neurologic and Psychiatric Diseases

Institution

  • University of Pennsylvania

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Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D.

Understanding Regulators of Area-Specific Identity in the Developing Human Cortex

Institution

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.

Microglial Regulation of Experience-Dependent Circuit Refinement in Mouse and Human Cortex

Institution

  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Laura DeNardo, Ph.D.

mPFC–thalamic Circuits in the Emergence of Enduring Fearful Memories

Institution

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Annegret Falkner, Ph.D.

Decoding the Specificity of Social Intent from Subcortical Networks

Institution

  • Princeton University

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Hidehiko Inagaki, Ph.D.

Dissecting a Neuronal Pathway that Coordinates Multiregional Neuronal Dynamics to Initiate Actions

Institution

  • Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

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Isha Jain, Ph.D.

Targeting Electron Transport Chain Instability in Neurodegenerative Disease

Institution

  • Gladstone Institutes

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Matthew Lovett-Barron, Ph.D.

Cellular and Network Mechanisms for Internal State Persistence

Institution

  • University of California, San Diego

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Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D.

Mapping the Development of the Seventh Layer of the Cerebral Cortex

Institution

  • University of California, San Francisco

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Yi-Rong Peng, Ph.D.

Molecular and Evolutionary Mapping of Neural-Circuit Specialization in High-Acuity Vision

Institution

  • University of California, Los Angeles

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Nikhil Sharma, Ph.D.

Cellular Diversity in Primary Nociceptors and Their Role in Pain and Nociception

Institution

  • Columbia University

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Hongying Shen, Ph.D.

Discovering the Unknown Lipid Biochemistry in Neurodegeneration

Institution

  • Yale University

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Ross Williamson, Ph.D.

Brain-Wide Cortical Circuits for Sensory-Guided Behavior

Institution

  • University of Pittsburgh

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