Please join us in congratulating Narges Firouzshahi and Chris Hunter on being announced as co-winners of the 2026 Kwak Ferguson Award.

Applications were open to any upper year neuroscience graduate student working in the area of Alzheimer’s disease or related degenerative neurological diseases (broadly defined). The award can be used for research costs, travel, and related training expenses. To be eligible, the student must be planning to present their work at the 2026 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC (November 14-18), broadly related to Alzheimer’s disease or other degenerative neurological diseases.