Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz wins Scialog Award

Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has been awarded a 2024 Scialog Molecular Basis of Cognition Award as part of a multidisciplinary team of early career scientists. In this third and final year of the Scialog: Molecular Basis of Cognition initiative, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation and the Walder Foundation conferred awards on six teams. Each of the 14 team members will receive $50,000.

Scialog is short for "science + dialog." Created in 2010 by RCSA, the Scialog format supports research by stimulating intensive interdisciplinary conversation and community building around a scientific theme of global importance.

The winning proposal by Fernandez-Ruiz and his teammates - Matthew Lovett-Barron of the University of California, San Diego, and Marcelo Mattar of New York University - was titled "Understanding the Neural Basis of Natural Behavior with Individualized artificial neural networks."

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