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12 January 2021
Registration is now open for the next Brain Prize Meeting "Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Mechanisms and Pathways to Treatment", held as a virtual meeting on 1-4 March 2021. [...] Read More
03 January 2021
FENS would like to congratulate Caroline Montojo on her nomination and is looking forward to continuing its excellent collaboration with the Dana Foundation. [...] Read More
17 November 2020
The Kavli Foundation has selected Dr Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, as its next president. Dr Friend will assume this post January 1, 2021. [...] Read More
14 October 2020
IBRO seeks an experienced association executive or experienced executive-scientist to serve as its next Executive Director. The Executive Director, along with IBRO’s offices and staff are located in Paris, France. The position closes on 31 October 2020. [...] Read More
23 June 2020
23 June, 2020 in Societies & Partner News The European Brain Research Area project - EBRA - was created as a catalysing initiative for brain research stakeholders to streamline and better co-ordinate brain research across Europe while fostering global initiatives. Subscribe to their newsletter and get updated on their activities! EBRA, the European Brain Research Area [...] Read More
26 May 2020
26 May, 2020 in Societies & Partner News The ALBA-FKNE-YIBRO Diversity Grants aim to broaden access to the FENS 2020 Virtual Forum. Application deadline: 14 June 2020 The ALBA Network, the FENS Kavli Network of Excellence (FKNE), and Young IBRO (YIBRO) in partnership with FENS, IBRO, the Federación Latinoamericana de Neurociencias y el Caribe (FALAN), the Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS), and [...] Read More
17 January 2020
FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 33 BAW projects held in 21 countries are funded in 2020. [...] Read More
23 September 2019
23 September, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Call for nominations for the 2020 Kavli Prizes is now open and will close on 1 December 2019. The winners will be announced on 27 May 2020 and the award ceremony will take place in Oslo, Norway on 8 September 2020. The Call for nominations for [...] Read More
18 July 2019
18 July, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Brain Prize Meeting 2019 will take place on 25-27 November 2019 in Copenhagen. With international keynote speakers including the 2019 Prize winners, this Meeting aims to bring a broad range of researchers to discuss why small vessel disease has emerged as a major contributor to dementia [...] Read More
15 July 2019
15 July, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The 12th IBRO-Kemali International Prize for Research in the field of Basic and Clinical Neurosciences has been awarded to Dr Hailan Hu. Dr Hu will be giving a featured lecture at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience in July 2020 in Glasgow. The IBRO-Kemali Foundation Prize Committee is [...] Read More
18 June 2019
18 June, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The call for nominations is now open for candidates for The Brain Prize 2020, the €1 million prize awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation. The Brain Prize recognizes highly original and influential advances in research on the nervous system, covering all aspects from fundamental studies to research related to [...] Read More
18 March 2019
18 March, 2019 in Societies & Partner News EBRA consortium is launching a Call for Clusters to promote co-operation and exchange between brain research projects and networks, and thus enable or enhance international collaboration and the emergence of development of clusters in all areas of brain research. The aim of EBRA is to foster new, [...] Read More
05 March 2019
05 March, 2019 in Societies & Partner News The Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize announces that The Brain Prize 2019 is awarded to four French neuroscientists: Professor Marie-Germaine Bousser, Professor Hugues Chabriat, Dr Anne Joutel and Professor Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve. The Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize announces that The Brain Prize 2019 is awarded to four French neuroscientists [...] Read More
17 January 2019
FENS is happy to announce that, thanks to the Dana Foundation grant, 33 BAW projects held in 21 countries are funded in 2020. [...] Read More
23 November 2018
23 November, 2018 in Societies & Partner News 1 November 2018 marked the launch of the European Brain Council (EBC)-coordinated EU project The European Brain Research Area (EBRA). EBRA was designed to respond to the Horizon 2020 call, SC1-HCO-10-2018, entitled “Coordinating European brain research and developing global initiatives”, which called for the reduction of fragmentation [...] Read More