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Announcement of the 2026 JNS-CNS Travel Award Program Awardees

The Call for Application of 2026 JNS-CNS Travel Award Program to attend the 19th Annual Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS) was closed on March 10th, 2025. Highly qualified applications were received, and the selection was made following a rigorous assessment by the Committee of International Collaboration Affairs of the JNS (Member list is indicated below).
We here extend our heartfelt congratulations to the following 6 awardees of the Year 2026:
Godfried Dougnon
"Brain Research Institute, Niigata University"
Kei Kimura
"Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University"
Tomas Barta
"Okinawa Insitute of Science and Technology"
Wagih Wagih Habib Marcus
"Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama"
Shohei Sakai
"Department of Neuroscience and Pathobiology, RIEM, Nagoya University"
Naranbaatar Oyunchimeg
"Division of Neuroanatomy, Department of Anatomy, Shiga University of Medical Science"
They will receive up to 800 USD and complementary registration for the meeting by the CNS.
The selection criteria were as follows:
  1. In addition to the submitted abstract and the motivation letter, past scientific achievements by the applicants were evaluated, as all awardees are expected to represent JNS at the 19th Annual Conference of Chinese Neuroscience Society.
  2. A final decision was made by secret votes by each of the committee members (the conflict of interest was considered).
If you have any opinions or comments on this award, please contact the JNS office
(office@jnss.org)
April 22, 2026
The International Collaboration Affairs Committee of the JNS,
Chair
Haruhiko Bito
Members
Hajime Hirase
Joshua P. Johansen
Satoshi Kida
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
Naoya Takahashi
Keiko Tanaka-Yamamoto
Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
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