List of Award Candidates

NEURO2026 Travel Award

Shatabdi Choudhury (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences) HAGERA DILNASHIN (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-ROORKEE, ROORKEE, INDIA) Hio-Been Han (Seoul National University of Science and Technology) Junghyun Jo (Ajou University School of Medicine) Jun Ju (Shandong University) Kanghoon Jung (GIST) AKASH KUMAR KHARWAR (NIPER HYDERBAD) Jalaledin Noroozi Talkhouncheh (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)) Xuelian SUN (Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Shengnan Wang (Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) Hong-Rui Wei (University of Science and Technology of China) Woojin Won (Institute for Basic Science (IBS)) Jingying Wu (Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) Yu Zheng (Peking University) Lavinia Boccia (University of Pennsylvania) Judith Cristina Cediel Escobar (University of Florida) José de Jesús Andrade Guerrero (National Autonomous University of Mexico) Iman Imtiyaz Ahmed Juvale (Monash University) Alexander J. Pascoe (Monash University) NICHOLAS MITSIOS (KAROLINSKA INSITUTET ) Ju-Chun Pei (National Taiwan University) Tessa Scarabello (Institut Interdisciplinaire des Neurosciences (IINS)) Belal Shohayeb (New York University- Abu Dhabi) Carla Cangalaya (BRI, FORTH, Ioannina, Greece) *This awardee is receiving support from Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute as a recipient of The Chen Science Writer Fellowship. *The following selected candidates have declined the award due to personal circumstances. Hamed Ghazvini (Department of neuroscience, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran) Firdian Makrufardi (Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta) Roon Banerjee (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences)

FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) - JNS (Japan Neuroscience Society) Travel Award

Víctor Álvaro (Cajal Institute (CSIC)) Hasan Duymuş (Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University) Vanessa Zanelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)

SfN (Society for Neuroscience)- JNS (Japan Neuroscience Society) Exchange Travel Award

Ossama Ghenissa (University of Montreal) Mathias Guayasamin (CRCHUM, Univesité de Montréal) Adam Ramsaran (The Hospital for Sick Children) Kyra Schindler (University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine) Faxin Zhou (New York University)

Travel Award Guidelines for NEURO2026

NEURO2026 offers Travel Awards to enthusiastic, leading, neuroscientists living abroad to present high-quality poster or oral presentation at the meeting. Applications from young principal investigators and senior postdoctoral fellows, also from Asian-Pacific countries are especially encouraged.
The amount of the funding for travel will be between 90,000–190,000 JPY per award.

Benefits

• The meeting registration fee is waived only for successful applicants.
• Recipients receive partial support for travel expenses (airfare from the recipient's country of residence to Japan, and domestic transportation fees in Japan).
• Recipients will need to arrange your accommodation on your own. The award money can be used for travel expenses as well as accommodation.
• Recipients are invited to the *International Exchange Meeting for Young Researchers on July 29.

*To facilitate interaction among young researchers from abroad and Japan, all recipients are invited to this mandatory event.
*The award recipients will be invited, so there is no need to register this event again.

Registration for NEURO2026

Complimentary Registration:
Awardees will be exempt from the registration fee for the meeting.

Unsuccessful applicants:
Need to register for the meeting with payment as per category.

*TA applicants can make a registration once results decided.
*Unsuccessful applicants can submit an abstract for the meeting as a regular participant by paying the registration fee.

Membership registration

TA applicants do not need to be members at the time of application. However, all presenters must be members of one of the following societies: the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry (JSN), or the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS). Detailed application instructions will be provided upon acceptance.

Not eligible to apply

• Symposium speakers
• Applicants who have already applied for a Travel Award through another neuroscience society affiliation (e.g., FENS, SfN, or others) are not eligible to apply again for this NEURO2026 Travel Award

*Applicants from the following countries must apply for the Travel Award through their own neuroscience societies: China, South Korea, India, and Iran. Each society has its own deadline and guidelines, and applicants must follow those instructions.
For further information, please contact the office of your society below:

China: the Chinese Neuroscience Society
http://www.cns.org.cn/
South Korea: the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science (KSBNS)
http://www.ksbns.org/
India: Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN)
http://www.neuroscienceacademy.org.in/
Iran: the Iranian Neuroscience Society (INS)
https://insorg.ir

Note

• Once your application has been accepted, the Travel Award selection committee will determine the appropriate amount of support.
• The amount of the Travel Award will not be increased under any circumstances.
• Each recipient must bear any additional expenses.
• We will notify recipients of the time and place at which the award money and certificate will be given by email as the conference date approaches.
• Attendance, and oral or poster presentation at NEURO2026 are mandatory. Award recipients who do not attend NEURO2026 and do not deliver a presentation will have their award revoked.
• Only the main author is eligible to receive the Travel Award.
• Participants can only give one oral or poster presentation at the meeting as the first author.
• All presenters at NEURO2026 must be an official member of one of the following societies: the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), the Japanese Society for Neurochemistry (JSN), or the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS).
• Upon acceptance, the JNS, JSN or JNNS office will contact successful applicants and provide instructions for membership registration. Please register for membership after you receive it.

For participants who require a visa

• Participants who require a visa must obtain the visa themselves.
• The meeting organizers will provide necessary visa documents upon request. With the documents we provide, we support your stay only for the 4-day conference plus 3 days.
• The visa support application form will be available on the conference website from the end of April 2026. Please submit your application through that form.

How to Apply for the Travel Award

Please read the following instructions and go to the application site.

1. Prepare the following four documents.
   • Curriculum vitae
   • Publication list
   • Copy of your passport (only the page where the photograph of your face appears)
   • Abstract for NEURO2026 presentation
   For details regarding abstract format, please see the Call for Papers section in the meeting website.
2. Register these documents on the Travel Award Registration site.
3. Recommendation letters
   • Graduate students/Postdoctoral fellows:
   Two recommendation letters should be sent to the NEURO2026 Secretariat (neuro2026@aeplan.co.jp) directly from recommenders, not from applicants.
   One of (two) letters must be from an applicant’s current supervisor.
   The letter should be no more than one page in length.
   Fill in your referees' names and contact information on the Travel Award Registration form.
   • Young principal investigators:
   No recommendation letter is required.

Registration: December 1st, 2025 to January 8th, 2026 5:00 p.m. JST

Timeline for NEURO2026 (tentative)

End of January, 2026

Notification to Travel Award Winners
Confirmation of attendance

February

Completion of Society Membership application (for successful applicants only)

April

VISA application information provided.

May

Notification of presentation schedule and format