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
Applications for 2021 will open shortly, the deadline will be Wednesday 1 September.
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).
A Neuroscience Early Career Prize Winners event will be held in the autumn. Further details will be provided after Easter. Winners will be asked to give a short presentation of the work that the award was given for.
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
- 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 Winners
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