Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award

JungA "Alexa" Woo, PhD (left), of Case Western Reserve University and Caroline Robertson, PhD (right), of Dartmouth College were awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award in 2023.

The Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award, supported by the Trubatch Family, recognizes originality and creativity in research and promotes success during academic transitions prior to tenure.

This award, previously known as the Career Development Award until 2011, was renamed in 2011 to honor Janett Rosenberg Trubatch.

Two recipients each year receive a $2,000 award and complimentary registration to SfN's annual meeting. The SfN president presents the award at a lecture at the meeting.

For more information, please review the Awards and Prizes FAQs.

Nomination Criteria & Materials

Nomination Criteria:

• Nominations must be made or endorsed by an SfN member.
• Nominees do not need to be SfN members.
• Self-nomination is not permitted.
• No person may nominate more than one candidate.
• Current SfN officers and councilors are ineligible for nomination.
• Due to the potential conflicts of interest, members of the selection committee may not be the nominees and they cannot serve as nominators nor write letters of recommendation.

Nomination materials include the following:

• One nomination letter and a maximum of two optional letters of recommendation
• One letter must include a summary of past, present, and future research; maximum two pages
• Current CV 

Eligibility

• Nominees must have a PhD or MD (or equivalent) with fewer than 10 years of full-time work.*
• Nominees cannot have received university tenure before nomination deadline.
• Candidates working in non-academic environments are eligible if their work is published and meets academic standards.

*Time taken off for child-rearing does not count in these totals. Part-time work and other special circumstances are evaluated at the discretion of the committee.

Nominations of women are especially encouraged.

Past Awardees

• 2024: Amber L. Alhadeff, PhD, and Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD
• 2023: Caroline Robertson, PhD and JungA "Alexa" Woo, PhD
• 2022: Laura DeNardo, PhD and Talia Lerner, PhD
• 2021: Shane Liddelow, PhD and Lauren O'Connell, PhD
• 2020: Markita Landry, PhD and Annabelle Singer, PhD
• 2019: Zoe Donaldson, PhD, and Michael Yartsev, PhD
• 2018: Aryn Gittis, PhD and Biyu He, PhD
• 2017: Helen Bateup, PhD; Peter Rudebeck, PhD
• 2016: Katherine Nagel, PhD; Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, PhD
• 2015: Mingshan Xue, PhD; Debra Bangasser, PhD
• 2014: Alexander Maier, PhD; Juan Song, PhD
• 2013: Maria Lehtinen, PhD; Mi Hyeon Jang, PhD
• 2012: Anne K. Churchland, PhD; Dayu Lin, PhD
• 2011: Jennifer Morgan, PhD; Amar Sahay, PhD
• 2010: Gabriel Kreinman, PhD; Roi Cohen Kadosh, PhD
• 2009: Raphael Pinaud, PhD; Christopher Pittenger, MD
• 2008: Tracy Bale, PhD; Alison Barth, PhD
• 2007: Adrienne Fairhall, PhD; Suzanne Paradis, PhD
• 2006: Qin Shen, PhD; Yi Zou, PhD
• 2005: Laura Bohn, PhD