Congratulations to the 2025-2026 BHI Trainee Travel Award Winners!
Congratulations to the 2025-2026 BHI Trainee Travel Award Winners!
Justin Burdge
Edward Chuang
Marissa Calvano
Meghal Desai
Shruti Ghumra
I-Tzu Hung
Divyangi Kantak
Li Xin Lim
Cory McCabe
Benton Purnell
Joel Raymond
For the Fall cycle, awards were given 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 BHI Focus Area Working Groups (FAWGs) selected the awardees.
In addition, the BHI Junior Faculty Working Group (JFWG) selected candidates for travel awards set aside exclusively for graduate students or post-docs whose primary mentors were junior faculty (defined as faculty holding a tenure-track Assistant Professor title) engaged in neuroscience or mental health research.
Trainee Travel Awardees must:
- 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).
- Present the poster at the Annual Rutgers BHI symposium held during the Fall semester.
- 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 ANY of 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. Chiara Manzini; Vice Chair- Dr. Jennifer Mulle
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
