ANS Indigenous Travel Award 2025

The Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) welcomes applications for their 2025 Indigenous travel award. This award will support Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori students and researchers to attend the 2025 annual meeting in Hobart from November 30-December 3. Find out more information about this year's meeting at http://www.ans.org.au/ans-asm

Expression of Interest (EOI) submissions close June 15, 2025

This opportunity would be a great fit for students (undergraduate and post graduate) or researchers engaged or interested in the following courses, degrees and research disciplines: Neuroscience, Psychology, Mental health/psychiatry, Neurodegeneration/healthy aging, Neuropharmacology, Brain cancer and Neurology.

Check out the ANS newsletter to see an update from the 2023 travel award winners about the great experience they had (page 13-14)

If you have any questions, please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., who can tell you more about ANS and the ANS Indigenous travel awards.

Apply Now – 2025 ANS Awards for Neuroscience Research & Education

Applications are now open for the 2025 Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements in neuroscience research and education across all career stages.

This year’s award categories include:

A.W. Campbell Award – For the best research contribution by a member within five years post-PhD.

Education Excellence Award – For individuals or teams who have significantly advanced neuroscience education in Australasia.

Marcello Costa Award – For the best publication on neural regulation of organs by a PhD student or early postdoctoral researcher (up to 3 years post-PhD).*

Mark Rowe Award – For the best publication by a PhD student or early postdoctoral researcher (up to 3 years post-PhD).*

Nina Kondelos Award – Awarded to a female neuroscientist for an outstanding contribution to basic or clinical neuroscience.

Paxinos-Watson Award – For the most significant neuroscience publication by any Society member.*

*Please note: A publication may only be submitted for one of the three publication-based awards.

These prestigious awards come with a monetary prize and national recognition. Winners of the A.W. Campbell and Nina Kondelos Awards will also be invited to deliver plenary lectures at the 2025 ANS Conference. Other awardees may be offered the opportunity to present their work in oral sessions.

Application Deadline: Friday, 25 July 2025
How to Apply: Submit your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (The application form is available on the webpage associated with each award)
More Info: https://www.ans.org.au/awards/ans-awards-2. 

For questions regarding the awards or your application, please contact the ANS Secretary, Matilde Balbi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We encourage all eligible members, as well as supervisors and mentors, to consider applying or nominating deserving colleagues and trainees.

Best regards,
Matilde Balbi

ANS Secretary

Applications now open for ANS Finkel Foundation Travelling Fellowships!

The Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) is excited to announce the opening the 2025 Australasian Neuroscience Society Finkel Foundation Travelling Fellowships. These awards have been made possible by the very generous donation of the A&E Finkel Foundation Trust, who have previously supported the establishment of the Australasian Course in Advanced Neuroscience.

Up to four Travelling Fellowships of up to $50,000 each will be awarded annually up to and including 2028. The goals of the Travelling Fellowships are:

- To provide career development opportunities to early and mid-career ANS Members based in Australia or New Zealand by supporting a “mini-sabbatical” style of Travelling Fellowship to a host laboratory with world-leading expertise relevant to development of brain-computer interfaces or related areas of innovative neurotechnology.

- To enhance Australian and New Zealand neuroscience and development of innovative solutions to neurological conditions by seeding new collaborations with world experts in brain-computer interfaces or related areas of innovative neurotechnology and facilitating establishment or application of these technologies or approaches in Australia and New Zealand.

Further details about the Fellowships and the application process are available on the ANS website at https://ans.org.au/awards/australasian-neuroscience-society-finkel-foundation-travelling-fellowships.

Closing date for applications: 6 June 2025.

ANS welcomes new members and participants in our future events.