[Careers, Training, Awards and Funding] Call for Applications: Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience

Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study in Neuroscience
Guidelines for applications in 2024
1. Purpose
This Award make a grant for excellent graduate studies in the field of neuroscience or brain science and thereby encourages young researchers and promotes further development of research in the field.
2. Research theme
A study proposed for the award should be an applicant’s graduate study in the field of neuroscience or brain science.
3. Award content
An award certificate and a supplementary prize of 100,000 yen (research fund) are provided to each awardee.
4. Application
An applicant shall submit an application form in accordance with the prescribed format, together with a copy of the applicant’s student identification card or that of the applicant’s Ph. D. certificate, to the Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Brain Research Promotion Fund Secretariat.
A PhD supervisor who supervised (or is currently supervising) the applicant’s doctoral study shall submit a recommendation letter in accordance with the prescribed format directly to the Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Brain Research Promotion Fund Secretariat. The application form and recommendation letter can also be submitted in PDF format by e-mail to koueki_post@tr.mufg.jp.
5. Target researchers
The award is intended for researchers who satisfy the following two conditions.
  1. Applicants should be researchers who are enrolled in a doctoral course or have received their doctoral degree less than 2 years prior to the application deadline.
  2. A study proposed for the award should be the one related to neuro/brain science and pursued during the applicant’s doctor program.
6. Application deadline
Both an application form and a recommendation letter must be sent to the Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Brain Research Promotion Fund Secretariat by Friday, March 22, 2024 (due NLT).
7. Selection
The awardees will be first selected by the Selection Committee of the Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Award for Excellent Graduate Study and then by the Steering Committee of the Toshihiko Tokizane Memorial Brain Research Promotion Fund. As the first selection, about 15 candidates will be selected from applicants by application document screening. In the subsequent selection session, the applicants who have passed the first selection shall make presentations on the research theme described in the application form. (The method and date of the selection session will be notified separately, and those who do not participate in the session are not considered for selection.)
After the presentation in the selection session, the steering committee will decide the results of the selection.
Academic domains and diversity including gender are also considered in the selection.
If the selection session is held at the NEURO2024, actual travel expenses to the venue of the congress, up to 10,000 yen, will be provided. (Please note that the grant money will be transferred in Japanese yen, and a bank account to receive the money must be an account of a financial institution located in Japan.)
8. Award ceremony and providing grant money
The awardees will be recognized and presented with the grant money in the NEURO2024. The research grant money will be sent to awardees by bank transfer at a later date.
  • If applicant’s affiliations receive grant money instead of applicants, the money are not allowed to be spent on overheads.
9. Mailing address for application

Public Trust Group, Retail Trust Assets Administration Division,
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
3-36-16, Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan
Email: koueki_post@tr.mufg.jp
For international Fax: +81-3-5328-0586
For domestic/Japan Fax: 03-5328-0586

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