2024-2025 Rutgers Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Awards

The BHI is pleased to announce the Spring 2025 trainee travel award for Rutgers neuroscience PhD, MD/PhD students and post-docs. BHI will provide $500 awards to help offset the cost of attending a national or international conference related to neuroscience or mental health research during the current year (i.e., by June 30, 2025).

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 BHI Trainee Travel Award Winners!

Congratulations to all our awardees! Wishing you an inspiring and impactful conference experience!

Jingyun Qiu

PhD Candidate, Kelvin Kwan’s lab Awarded by Cognitive & Sensory Neuroscience FAWG

Jiazhen Hong

PhD Candidate, Laleh Najafizadeh’s lab Awarded by Cognitive & Sensory Neuroscience FAWG

Mansi Pandya

PhD Candidate, Wilma Friedman’s lab Awarded by Neurodegeneration and Injury FAWG

Arnab Choudhury

Postdoctoral Associate Hyung Jin Ahn’s lab Awarded by Neurodegeneration and Injury FAWG

Raymond Chien

PhD Student Ying-Xian Pan’s lab Awarded by Motivational & Affective Neuroscience FAWG

Cintia Velazquez Delgado

Postdoctoral Fellow Gleb Shumyatsky’s lab Awarded by Motivational & Affective Neuroscience FAWG

Ahmad Beyh

Postdoctoral Fellow Linden Parkes’ Lab Awarded by Junior Faculty Working Group

Jorge Luis Islas

Postdoctoral Fellow Mark Rossi’s lab Awarded by Junior Faculty Working Group

Alessandro Galloni

Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Milstein’s lab Awarded by Junior Faculty Working Group

Alessandro Stillitano

PhD Student, Peng Jiang’s lab Awarded by Neurodevelopment FAWG

Anthony Williams

PhD Candidate, Wilma Friedman’s Lab Awarded by Neurodevelopment FAWG

For the Spring cycle, there will be awards in each of the four BHI focus areas:

  1. Neurodegeneration and Injury
  2. Neurodevelopment
  3. Motivational and Affective Neuroscience
  4. Cognitive and Sensory Neuroscience

Each of the four Focus Area Working Groups (FAWGs) will select the awardees.

In addition, the Junior Faculty Working Group (JFWG) will select candidates for travel awards set aside exclusively for graduate students or post-docs whose primary mentors are junior faculty (defined as faculty holding a tenure-track Assistant Professor title) engaged in neuroscience or mental health research.

Trainee Travel Awardees must:

  1. Acknowledge the Rutgers Brain Health Institute on the poster or in the slide presentation (submit a picture of the Acknowledgement section of the conference poster or presentation slide).
  2. Present the poster at the Annual Rutgers BHI symposium held during the Fall semester.
  3. Submit copies of the travel and registration receipts.

** Trainees in the labs of the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of the BHI Working Groups are not eligible for these travel award competitions as they have already been allotted separate trainee travel awards from BHI.

Neurodegeneration & Injury FAWG: Chair- Dr. Detlev Boison; Vice Chair- Dr. Steve Levison

Neurodevelopment FAWG: Chair- Dr. Wayne Fisher; Vice Chair- Dr. Chiara Manzini

Motivational & Affective Neuroscience FAWG: Chair- Dr. Danielle Dick; Vice Chair- Dr. Zhiping Pang

Cognitive & Sensory Neuroscience FAWG: Chair- Dr. David Zald; Vice Chair- Dr. Tibor Rohacs

Junior Faculty Working Group (JFWG): Chair- Dr. Miriam Bocarsly; Vice Chair- Dr. Linden Parkes

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