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CNS2026

March 7 – 10, 2026 • Vancouver, B.C.

March 7 – 10, 2026

Vancouver, B.C.

CNS 2026 | Young Investigator Award

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Previous Winners

2025

Emily S. Finn, Dartmouth College
Andre' Bastos, Vanderbilt University

2024

Peter Kok, University College London
Ella Striem-Amit, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

2023

Anna Schapiro, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Freek van Ede, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2022

Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University
Vishnu "Deepu" Murty, Temple University

2021

Anne Collins, UC Berkeley
Amitai Shenhav, Brown University

2020

Catherine Hartley, New York University
Samuel J. Gershman, Harvard University

2019

Muireann Irish, The University of Sydney, Australia
Michael W. Cole, Rutgers University – Newark

2018

Morgan Barense, University of Toronto
Michael Yassa, University of California, Irvine

2017

Leah Somerville, Ph.D., Harvard University
Nicholas Turk-Browne, Ph.D., Princeton University

2016

Adriana Galvan, UCLA
Joel Voss, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

2015

Donna Rose Addis, Ph.D., University of Auckland, NZ
Christopher Summerfield, Ph.D., University of Oxford

2014

Daphna Shohamy, Ph.D. , Columbia University
David Badre, Ph.D., Brown University

2013

Uta Noppeney, Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK
Tor Wager, Ph.D., University of Colorado

2012

Adam Aron, Ph.D., University of California San Diego Roshan Cools, Ph.D., Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

2011

Michael J. Frank, Ph.D., Brown University
Elizabeth Kensinger, Ph.D., Boston College

2010

Kara Federmeier, University of Illinois
Adam Anderson, University of Toronto

2009

Lila Davachi, New York University
Clayton Curtis, New York University

2008

Charan Ranganath, University of California Davis
Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University
Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2007

Silvia A. Bunge, University of California
Steven Laureys, MD, University of Liège

2006

Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University
Alumit Ishai, University of Zurich

2005

Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
Kevin LaBar, Duke University

2004

Anthony Wagner, Stanford University
Eleanor Maguire, University College London

2003

Roberto Cabeza, Duke University
Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania

2002

Isabel Gauthier, Vanderbilt University
Randy Buckner, Washington University Saint Louis