Awards and Prizes

The ANS presents a number of Awards and Prizes annually:

ANS Student Travel Awards are made to students attending the ANS meeting and are a partial contribution towards their airfare costs.

The Distinguished Achievement Award is an occasional award for an outstanding contribution by an individual to neuroscience in Australia, and to the Australian Neuroscience Society.

The A.W. Campbell Award is for the best contribution by a member of the society in their first five postdoctoral years.

The Nina Kondelos Prize is awarded to a female neuroscientist for outstanding contribution to basic or clinical neuroscience research.

The ANS Medallion is awarded both to plenary lecturers at the Society’s Annual Meeting and to other individuals who have provided outstanding service to the Society.

The Paxinos-Watson Prize is for the most significant neuroscience paper published by a full member of the society in the year prior to submission of the nomination.

The Istvan Törk Prize is for the best oral presentation by a Student Member of the Society at the Annual Meeting.

The Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith Award is for the best poster by a Student Member of the Society at the Annual Meeting.

Judging of AW Campbell, Nina Kondelos and Paxinos-Watson Prizes

For each Prize/Award, members of the ANS Executive* who do not have conflicts of interest with any of the applicants select 3 judges who are ANS members. The 3 judges are each asked to rank the applicants. The judges' identities, rankings and comments are confidential to members of ANS Executive and are not made available to the applicants, to the other judges or to any other person. The Prize/Award is made to the applicant with the highest mean ranking from the judges.

 *The ANS Executive consists of the President, President-Elect or Past-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Editor.

Nominations for 2010 Awards and Prizes are due by 20th November 2009 and should be submitted to the ANS Secretary.