The McKnight Foundation has announced that its McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has named 10 neuroscientists to receive the 2023 McKnight Scholar Award.

This is the first year McKnight is awarding these grants under the program’s new guidelines, which place additional emphasis on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to neuroscience. Since the program was introduced in 1977, it has funded more than 260 innovative investigators and spurred hundreds of breakthrough discoveries.

Each scholar will receive $75,000 annually for three years. Faculty are eligible for the award during their first four years in a full-time faculty position.

“The committee is delighted to congratulate an array of splendid new Scholars,” said Richard Mooney, chair of the awards committee and George Barth Geller Professor of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. “Each is committed to solving the most fundamental problems in neuroscience, from identifying the molecules that build a nervous system to decrypting the neural computations that enable us to see, learn new skills, and even form social bonds.”

For information about the 2023 scholars, see the McKnight Foundation website.

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