The David and Lucile Packard Foundation named 18 of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers as recipients of the 2015 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow will receive a grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will award the Donald B. Lindsley Prize to Sung-Yon Kim, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Supported by The Grass Foundation, the prize recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis in the area of general behavioral neuroscience.

Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced their first round of BRAIN Initiative award recipients. Six teams and 15 researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were recipients.

The Life Sciences Research Foundation is please to announce recipients of three-year postdoctoral fellowships beginning August 2014.

To celebrate 40 years of Cell, we invited 40 scientists from around the world and working in diverse biological fields—all under the age of 40—to talk about science, their personal philosophies, the joys and challenges of research, and their lives away from the bench.

The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.