The Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) will welcome its 2020-2022 cohort on August 1, 2020. With the addition of 123 scholars who accepted, the total current cohort (including 2019-2021) now encompasses 215 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Combined with Program’s past scholars (dating back to 1981), the NSP alumni network now encompasses nearly 1,200 underrepresented neuroscience researchers at all career stages!

Two members of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) have been selected from a highly competitive applicant pool to attend to the 43^rd Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS) Meeting from July 29 – August 1, 2020.

Eight members of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) have been selected from a highly competitive applicant pool to attend to the 12^th Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum from July 11 – 15, 2020. 

The membership elected Oswald Steward as incoming president, Kenneth Maynard as incoming treasurer, and Patricia Janak as incoming secretary. The elected councilors are Juan Lerma and Suzanne Haber.

Due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic developments and based on current information available from District of Columbia health authorities and from the D.C. Convention Center, Neuroscience 2020 abstract submission, currently scheduled for July 6-16, 2020, will be delayed to August 10-19, 2020.

The Society for Neuroscience is opposed to the recent executive order extending restrictions on non-immigrant visas. By limiting the pool of talented and passionate scientists available to laboratories, universities, and private industry, this action only serves to damage scientific advancement without accomplishing any stated goals. 

Neuroscientists Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne Share $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize for their Pioneering Work on the Molecular Mechanisms that Control Axon Guidance.

SfN remains committed to making decisions that are guided by public health authorities and will continue to monitor the situation to determine the effect it may have on our meeting. We will provide updates to members, volunteer leaders, exhibitors, and the field when they are available.

SfN reaffirms its commitment to promoting diversity and fostering excellence.

The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their independent discoveries of sensory receptors for temperature and pressure, respectively. While the mechanisms for smell and vision have long been described, a specific molecular understanding for how physical properties like temperature and pressure are detected and encoded into electrical signals the brain can process had been lacking.