[Careers, Training, Awards and Funding] JNS-CNS Exchange Travel Award Program

Announcement of the call for the 2025 JNS-CNS Travel Award

Dear JNS members,
The 18th Chinese Neuroscience Meeting will be held in Xi’an on September 25-28, 2025.
In recent years, JNS is enhancing the relationship with the Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS) and invites several young scientists to the Annual Meeting with travel award. Reciprocating our initiative, the CNS also welcomes Japanese young scientists to their annual meeting with travel award.
For the upcoming 18th CNS meeting in Xi’an, CNS will provide 6 travel awards, each award consisting of 800 USD to contribute towards covering travel and accommodation expenses and a waiver of the registration fee.
Here we announce a call for application for the 2025 JNS-CNS Travel Award. CNS recommend prioritizing young principal investigators and senior postdoctoral fellows, particularly those without prior experience living or working in China. Applicants are requested to prepare JNS-CNS Travel Award Application as below.
  • Application Deadline:
March 17, Monday, 2025 at Noon, JST.
  • Note:
  • 2023 and 2024 JNS-CNS Travel Award recipients are not eligible.
  • This Travel Awardees are not permitted to concurrently receive other travel grants or grants related to CNS 2025.
  • This is not available to those who are in arrears with their JNS annual membership fees (At the time of application, we will check the payment status up to 2024, but please be sure to pay the annual membership fee for 2025 as well).
  • Application Materials (in English):
1. - 3. should be collated into a single file.
  1. Name, Age, Affiliation, Position, JNS membership number, and Motivation letter (250 words max. in English)
  2. One-page curriculum vitae in English that includes the following information.
  • Education and professional experience, if any: please explicitly mention the date when the applicant received (or is expected to receive) his/her Ph.D. degree.
  • Honors/awards, if any.
  • Bibliography of all peer-reviewed and invited publications, as well as meeting abstracts.
  • If you cannot fit it in one page, you can submit an additional page.
  1. An abstract in a MS Word file (within one A4 page)
  • Send application to:
The Japan Neuroscience Society <application@jnss.org>
  • Email title:
2025 JNS-CNS Travel Award Application
JNS strongly encourages our members to take advantage of the international networking opportunity between China and Japan.
Sincerely,
Yukiko Goda
Chair, JNS International Collaboration Affairs Committee

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