Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences

Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences is sponsored by The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund. This fellowship supports early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Areas of interest include cellular and molecular neuroscience, neural systems, and translational research.

Neuroscience - Klingenstein Philanthropies About the Klingenstein Fellowship awards in neuroscience In 1981, the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund established the Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience to better understand epilepsy and improve the lives of those suffering from it.

Over the years, the Fund broadened the scope of these awards to include early career investigators engaged in basic or clinical neuroscience research that could lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The awards are now among the nation’s oldest and most illustrious fellowships for highly promising, early career scientists conducting cutting edge neuroscience research.

From 2013 to 2024, the Fund forged a partnership with the Simons Foundation that established the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience. Today, the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund continues to award fellowships that support high-risk, high-reward projects.

Several areas within the neurosciences are of particular interest: Cellular and molecular neuroscience. Studies of the mechanisms of neuronal excitability and development, and of the genetic basis of behavior. Neural systems .

Studies of the integrative function of the nervous system. Translational research. Studies to improve our understanding of the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

In 2021, the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund conducted an evaluation of its Neuroscience Fellowship Program. The results can be found here .

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Klingenstein Grants Program The Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Program is dedicated to supporting – both financially and intellectually – the most creative neuroscientists at the start of their independent careers. The fellowship also creates a community, with a life-long network of colleagues, mentors, and friends.

The program holds an annual conference that deepens the fellowship experience by enabling fellows to network with their peers, seek feedback on their work, and exchange ideas with leaders in neuroscience. The meeting brings together current fellows, who are required to attend during the three-year term of their award, as well as select past fellows.

It takes place in New York City and includes slide and poster presentations, with time for questions and interaction with the program’s advisors and the foundations’ trustees. 2014 Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in Neurocsience Project Title: The Neural Substrates of Spatial Coding “The fellowship landed just as I was building my lab and considering the idea that ion-channel kinetics dictate the scale of the brain’s spatial map.

It was an early vote of confidence and let us demonstrate in the very first days of the lab that knocking out HCN1 channels in the medial entorhinal cortex enlarges grid spacing and degrades spatial memory. That pivotal support ignited a research program that now links single‑cell biophysics to flexible navigation and has reframed how I think about cognition at the molecular level. ” Scientific Advisory Committee