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Announcement of 2025 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Awardees

July 30, 2025
The Call for Application of 2025 JNS-SfN Exchange Travel Award, originally launched in Year 2012, was open from May 21 to June 4 this year. We received excellent, high quality applications, which were reviewed by the International Collaboration Affairs Committee of the JNS (A full member list is indicated below). Following a stringent selection process, we here extend our heartfelt congratulations to the following 5 awardees of the Year 2025:
Hongshen He RIKEN, Center for Brain Science, Lab for Circuit and Behavioral Physiology
Yoshiki Ito Graduate School of Medicine, Neuroscience, The University of Tokyo
Narutoshi Suto Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB)
Hiromi Shiozaki Department of Pharmacology Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Tohoku University
Shota Miyazaki Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University
As ambassadors of the JNS, the awardees will attend events such as the International Fellows Orientation Session and Early Career Poster session of the SfN Annual Meeting.
The criteria for selection were scientific excellence as evaluated based on the submitted abstract, essay letter, and the candidates’CV. The committee members did not participate in the evaluation of a candidate with a conflict of interest. Although this Award was initiated to support young scientists suffering from the outcome of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, it is now recognized as an Award of prestige for young JNS researchers, as demonstrated by the number of outstanding applications we receive. Accordingly, in recent years, the applicant selection has emphasized scientific excellence of the application.
Please contact the JNS office (office@jnss.org) for any feedback or comments about this Award.
The International Collaboration Affairs Committee of the JNS,
Chair Yukiko Goda
Members Haruhiko Bito
Hajime Hirase
Joshua P. Johansen
Yasushi Okamura
Naoya Takahashi
Keiko Tanaka-Yamamoto
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
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