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In Memoriam: Sir Colin Blakemore

Colin believed the responsibility of scientists extended beyond research inside their labs to public dissemination and discussion, helping provide people with the knowledge to make important life and health choices.
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Brain Awareness Week Goes Virtual in 2021

Brain Awareness Week (BAW), for the 26th year, was a success! The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges this year, but despite the obstacles, partners organized events in 45 countries and 32 states.
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Barbara E. Gill Announces Retirement

After a 29-year career at the Dana Foundation, Executive Vice President Barbara Gill has announced her retirement at the end of May. Barbara’s contributions to the Foundation and brain science have been immeasurable. She was instrumental in the formation of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives in the US and its sister organization in Europe. […]
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Why Do You Participate in Brain Awareness Week? With Roland Pochet, Ph.D.

Belgian neuroscientist Roland Pochet is a Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member who was awarded the Dana/EDAB Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Outreach on Behalf of Brain Research at the 2018 FENS Forum. He has participated in #BrainWeek for more than 20 years, organizing events around the country, including the European Parliament.

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Dana Foundation Announces Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., as New President

The Dana Foundation has named Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., as its next president, effective March 1, 2021. Dr. Montojo is currently the director of Life Sciences and the director of Brain Initiatives at The Kavli Foundation.
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Senior Dana Alliance Couple Demystifies Dyslexia

Dana Alliance members Sally and Bennett Shaywitz were featured in The New York Times for updating a study they began in 1983 on dyslexia.

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Eric Kandel is Alan Alda’s Podcast Guest

On the latest episode of the Clear + Vivid podcast, host Alan Alda, sits down with old friend and Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member Eric R. Kandel
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Alliance Members Awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

The 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, which recognizes neuroscientists for pioneering advances in our understanding of existence at its biggest, smallest, and most complex scale, was presented to two Dana Alliance members and announced this morning.
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In the Lab with Ewelina Knapska

One of a series in which a Dana Alliance member is asked about daily life in the laboratory and outside interests. The lab of Ewelina Knapska examines socially transferred emotions, the neural mechanisms of impaired social behaviors, and the neural mechanisms of extinction and renewal of learned fears.

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The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years after the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives was founded in Washington, D.C., there are more than 580 neuroscientists in over 30 countries, and it continues to expand its role in making information about the brain accessible for the public.

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