Scientific Research Award recipients
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 好色先生 Scientific Research Awards. Browse recipients below. The AAN thanks the American Brain Foundation for their support through philanthropy of the AAN's awards program.
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AAN Neuro-infectious Disease Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Kathryn Holroyd, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, NY
2024 recipient: Prashanth S. Ramachandran, Jr., MBBS, BMedSci, PhD, FRACP
Bhuwan Garg High School Neuroscience Research Prize
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and the Child Neurology Society.
Ella Saltstein
Byram Hills High School
Armonk, NY
2024 recipient: Allison Duh
Bruce S. Schoenberg International Award in Neuroepidemiology
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.
Manya Prasad, MD
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
New Delhi, India
2024 recipient: Enrique Gomez Figueroa, MD, MSc
Career Development Award
Funded by the 好色先生.
Sasha Gupta, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Krithi Irmady, MD, MBBS
Rockefeller University
New York, NY
2024 recipients: Cole Harrington, MD, PhD; Divakar Mithal, MD, PhD
Clinical Research Training Scholarship
Funded by the 好色先生.
Pritha Bisarad, PhD
University of Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
Kaitlin F. Farrell, MD, PhD
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
Amanda M. Nagy, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
2024 recipients: Monique Anderson, MD, PhD; Emanuele Barca, MD, PhD; David Fischer, MD; John Rhee, MD, MPH
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in ALD
Funded by Arrivederci ALD and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Danielle (HyunJung) Kim, PhD
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in ALS
Funded by The ALS Association and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Joe Viteri, PhD
University of Missouri鈥疦ext GEN Health Institute
Columbia, MO
2024 recipient: Jill Goslinga, MD, MPH
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in FTD
Funded by Holloway Family Fund of The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Janani Parameswaran, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
2024 recipient: Rowan Saloner, PhD
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Neuromuscular Disease
Funded by the Neuromuscular Study Group and the American Brain Foundation.
Sophie Rengarajan, MD, PhD
Stanford Neurology
Palo Alto, CA
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Parkinson's Disease
Funded by the Parkinson's Foundation and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Laura de Lima Xavier, MD
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
2024 recipient: Brittany Krzyzanowski, PhD
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Peripheral Neuropathy
Funded by the Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy through the American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Tiffany Li, PhD
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
2024 recipient: Francesco Michelassi, MD, PhD
Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by members of the 好色先生 Epilepsy Section; Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; Cephalon, Inc.; Cyberonics, Inc.; Elan Corporation; GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.; Novartis; Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Pfizer Inc; Shire Pharmaceuticals Group; and UCB Pharma.
Alice D. Lam, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
2024 recipient: Erin C. Conrad, MD
H. Richard Tyler Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and the 好色先生 History Section.
Jonathan Williams, MD
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Harold Wolff-John Graham Award: An Award for Headache/Facial Pain Research
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by Endo Pharmaceuticals.
Carlyn Patterson Gentile, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2024 recipient: Chia-Chun Chiang, MD
Health Care Equity Program
Omar M. Al-Janabi, MD, PhD, MSc
Baptist Health
Lexington, KY
Miya Asato, MD, FAAN
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD
Fazila Aseem, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC
Sana Aslam, DO
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
Nan Cheng, MD
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA
Shannon M. DiCarlo, MD, FAAN
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Qihua Fan, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Alexander Jonokuchi, MD
New York University Langone Medical Center
New York, NY
Laveena Singla, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Muhammad I. Yousaf, MD
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA
2024 recipients: Yohance Mandela Allette, MD, PhD; Raima M. Amin, MD; Yvette Michelle Brown-Shirley, MD; Angela Lu, MD, FAAN; Jose Antonio Montes-Rivera, MD; Sameh Morkous, MD, FAAN; Aaron Lane Nelson, MD, FAAN; Meghna Rajaprakash, MD; Talita D'Aguiar Rosa, MD; Timothy J. Young, MD
Health Care Equity Research Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Rachel Forman, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Adys Mendizabal, MD, MS
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Lesli E. Skolarus, MD, MS
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
2024 recipients: Galit L. Dunietz, MA, MPH, PhD; Mathula Thangarajh, MD, PhD, FAAN; Raina Croff, PhD
John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and National Multiple Sclerosis Society and made possible through a special contribution from the John Dystel Multiple Sclerosis Research Fund at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCPC
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2024 recipient: Rhonda Voskuhl, MD
Jon Stolk Award in Movement Disorders for Early Career Investigators
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by Kyowa Pharmaceutical, Inc., Lineberry Research, Quintiles, Dr. Dennis Gillings, and VelaPharma.
Shannon Y. Chiu, MD, MSc
Mayo Clinic Arizona
Scottsdale, AZ
2024 recipient: Abby L. Olsen, MD, PhD
Lawrence C. McHenry Award: An Award for the History of Neurology
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Alison L. Christy, MD, PhD, FAAN
Providence Health & Services
Portland, OR
Lawrence A. Zeidman, MD, FAAN
Henry Ford Health
Detroit, MI
2024 recipient: Alison L. Christy, MD, PhD
Lawrence M. Brass Stroke Research Award
Funded by the American Heart Association and the American Brain Foundation, in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Sigfus Kristinsson, PhD
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
2024 recipient: Ana-Lucia Garcia Guarniz, MD
McKnight Clinical Translational Research Scholarship in Cognitive Aging and Age-Related Memory Loss
Funded by the McKnight Brain Research Foundation through the American Brain Foundation, and the 好色先生.
Giovanna Pilonieta, PhD, DMD, MPH
University of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
Deborah Rose, MD
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
2024 recipient: Haopei Yang, PhD
Medical Student Essay Award - G. Milton Shy Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Xaida Wright, BS
University of California, Riverside School of Medicine
Riverside, CA
2024 recipient: Richard I. Suarez, JM
Medical Student Essay Awards - Lewis P. Rowland
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Daria Hoang, BA
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
2024 recipient: Mimi Lam, BS
Medical Student Essay Award - Roland P. Mackay Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Courtney N. Nguyen
University of Texas Health Science Center McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX
2024 recipient: Allison Brown, MS
Medical Student Essay Award - Saul R. Korey Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Kiran K. Sankarappan
Texas A&M University College of Medicine
College Station, TX
2024 recipient: Gabriella Miggins
Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by Dr. Pessin’s family, friends, and colleagues.
Aristeidis Katsanos, MD, PhD
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
Canada
2024 recipient: Antreas Charidimou, MD, PhD, MSc
Mitchell B. Max Neuropathic Pain Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by the United States Cancer Pain Relief Committee, the Mayday Fund, and friends of Dr. Mitchell Max.
Brian Callaghan, MD, MS, FAAN
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, MI
2024 recipient: Daniela Salvemini, PhD
Movement Disorders Research Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生, the Parkinson’s Foundation, and the 好色先生 Movement Disorders Section and endowed by the Parkinson’s Foundation.
Janis M. Miyasaki, MD, MEd, FAAN
University of Alberta/Alberta Health Services
Edmonton, AB
Canada
2024 recipient: David Rubinsztein, MBChB, BSc (Med) Hons, PhD
Neuroscience Research Training Scholarship
Funded by the 好色先生.
Carson Moseley, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Mohit Rastogi, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
2024 recipients: Hashmat Ghanizada, MD, PhD; Alexander Gill, MD, PhD; Ho Namkung, PhD
Neuro-oncology Investigator Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and supported by friends of Dr. Jerome Posner.
Mary Jane Lim-Fat, MD, FRCPC
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Canada
2024 recipient: Yazmin Odia, MD, FAAN, MS
Neuro-oncology Scientific Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and supported by friends of Dr. WK Alfred Yung.
Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD, FAAN
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
2024 recipient: William Weiss, MD, PhD
Neuroscience Research Prize
Sponsored by the 好色先生.
Sofia Magalhaes
Ossining High School
Ossining, NY
Ashley Malkin
Greenwich High School
Greenwich, CT
Sharmada Palakurthi
W.B. Ray High School
Corpus Christi, TX
2024 recipients: Sreekar Baddepudi; Thrisha Kalpatthi; Syed Zaidi
Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed through Dr. Geschwind’s family, friends, and colleagues; Pfizer Inc; and the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology.
Matthew J. Burke, MD, FRCPC
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON
Canada
2024 recipient: David Irwin, MD
Practice Research Training Scholarship
Funded by the 好色先生.
Jennifer Corcoran, MD
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
2024 recipient: Andrew Huang, MD
Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and the American Brain Foundation and funded through the philanthropy of the Potamkin family.
Gil D. Rabinovici, MD, FAAN
University of California, San Francisco Memory & Aging Center
San Francisco, CA
William W. Seeley, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
2024 recipient: Francisco T. Lopera, MD, PhD
Richard Olney Clinician Scientist Development Award in ALS
Funded by The ALS Association and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Arens Taga, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
2024 recipient: Eleanor Thomas, MD, PhD
S. Weir Mitchell Resident-Fellow Research Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by the former 好色先生 Alliance.
Erik Lindgren, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and University of Gothenburg
Boston, MA
Evangelos Pavlos Myserlis, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
2024 recipient: Shane Arsenault, MD, MSc, MPH
Sheila Essey Award: An Award for ALS Research
Presented by the AAN and the ALS Association and supported through the philanthropy of the Essey family, the American Brain Foundation, and the ALS Association.
Christopher J. McDermott, MBChB, FRCP, PhD
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Neil A. Shneider, MD, PhD
Columbia University
New York, NY
2024 recipient: Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, FAAN
Sleep Science Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and the 好色先生 Sleep Section and endowed by Cephalon, Inc.
Mark I. Boulos, MD, FRCPC, CSCN(EEG), MSc
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON
Canada
2024 recipient: Brendan P. Lucey, MD, Msci
Susan S. Spencer, MD, Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Epilepsy
Funded by the American Epilepsy Society, Epilepsy Foundation, and American Brain Foundation in collaboration with the 好色先生.
Peter N. Hadar, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
2024 recipient: Jillian McKee, MD, PhD
Wayne A. Hening Sleep Medicine Investigator Award
Sponsored by the 好色先生 and endowed by UCB, Inc., Lilly USA, Elite Home Medical & Respiratory, Inc., Raleigh Neurology Associates, and friends of Dr. Wayne A. Hening.
Stephen Joza, MD, PhD
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Canada
2024 recipient: Stuart McCarter, MD