Aspirational Neuroscience Award Winners:

2023 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #1:

  Holler, Köstinger, Martin, Schuhknecht, Stratford for:

      Holler et al. 2020 “Structure and function of a neocortical synapse”

2023 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #2 (Shared): 

   Jun-Hyeok Choi, Su-Eon Sim, Ji-il Kim, Dong Il Choi for:

       Choi et al. 2018 “Interregional synaptic maps among engram cells underlie memory formation”

   Dong Il Choi, Jooyoung Kim, Hoonwon Lee, Ji-il Kim for:

      Choi et al. 2021 “Synaptic correlates of associative fear memory in the lateral amygdala”

2023 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #3 (Shared): 

   Qiaojie Xiong, Petr Znamenskiy for:

      Xiong et al. 2015 “Selective corticostriatal plasticity during acquisition of an auditory discrimination task”

   Sanchari Ghosh for:

      Ghosh et al. 2021 “Corticostriatal Plasticity Established by Initial Learning Persists after Behavioral Reversal”

2023 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #4: 

  Akihiro Goto for:

      Goto et al. 2021 “Stepwise synaptic plasticity events drive the early phase of memory consolidation”


2019 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #1: 

   Gisella Vetere for:

      Vetere et al. 2019 “Memory formation in the absence of experience”

2019 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #2: 

  Luis Carrillo-Reid for:

      Carrillo-Reid et al. 2019 “Controlling Visually Guided Behavior by Holographic Recalling of Cortical Ensembles”

2019 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #3 (Shared): 

   Sami El-Boustani and Jacque Pak Kan Ip for:

      El-Boustani et al. 2018 “Locally coordinated synaptic plasticity of visual cortex neurons in vivo”

2019 Aspirational Neuroscience Award #4: 

  Thomas M Bartol Jr for:

      Bartol et al. 2015 “Nanoconnectomic upper bound on the variability of synaptic plasticity”

Awards and Prizes

A visionary anonymous donor has funded our current awards and prizes as follows:
 
Annual Research Awards are currently US $25,000 (split equally among co-awarded papers then split equally among co-first authors). Four awards are presently offered each year typically during or around the time of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in November. Papers are selected from the annual nominations. Current philanthropic commitments will hopefully allow us to offer these annual awards until 2030.
 
Memory Decoding Challenge Prize is currently $100,000. It will be offered to the first author of the team that makes this historic achievement, upon publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. There is no time limit for this award.
 

Thank You Neurophilanthropists

 
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