To honour the memory of Jon Driver, an annual Prize is awarded to outstanding young neuroscientists from UCL.
Key information
Eligibility
PhD students within the Neuroscience Domain at UCL (registered at the time of the application deadline).
Deadline
Monday 2 May 2022.
Requirements
- 2 page CV with publication list
- Motivation statement (500 words)
- 1-page abstract describing work to be considered (SFN abstract format)
- Supporting statement from supervisor / sponsor
- 50-word biography
- Proposed title for talk at Neuroscience Symposium if selected
- High-resolution photograph of yourself
Award
£500. Up to 4 awards may be made per year (at the discretion of the committee).
Winners will be asked to give a short presentation of the work that the award was given for at the annual Neuroscience Symposium on Wednesday 22 June 2022.
Committee
- Sven Bestmann
- Francesca Cacucci
- Ray Dolan
- Michael Hausser
- Tamar Makin
Apply
For applications and information, please email: jondriverprize@gmail.com
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Previous winners
- 2021 Winners
Alex Fratzl, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Flexible inhibitory control of visually-evoked defensive behaviourMatthew Nour, Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Impaired neural replay for inferred relationships in schizophrenia, and its relationship to default mode network functionDora Steel, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Whole-genome sequencing for rare childhood movement disordersAngeliki Zarkali, UCL Dementia Research Centre
Finding the network balance: the neural correlates of visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease
- 2020 Winners
Pablo Izquierdo UCL Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology
Synapse development is regulated by microglial THIK-1 K+ channelYunzhe Liu Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Neural replay in abstraction and inferenceMax Rollwage Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research
Cognitive and neural mechanism underlying confirmation bias- 2019 Winner
Sean Cavanagh, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
The role of neuronal timescales in cognition- 2018 Winners
Andrea Banino, CoMPLEX, UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and DeepMind
Neuroscience and AI: modelling the brain using deep neural networks
Dr Ruben Duque do Vale, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Spatial navigation during escape behaviours in mice- 2017 Winners
Christin Kosse, Denis Burdakov Lab, The Francis Crick Institute
Amy McTague, Manju Kurian Lab, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Federico Rossi, Matteo Carandini Lab, UCL Institute of Opthalmology