The Neuroscience Summit
The Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies inaugurated in 2021 The Neuroscience Summit, a regular annual forum designed to mobilize a select group of global thought leaders and scholars across areas of neuroscience, with the goal of charting a path for engaging global neuroscience leadership in future trends on a broad scale.
The Neuroscience Summit marshals thought leaders to engage participants in a critical analysis of the major neuroscience trends through a series of informal discussion sessions and unconstrained networking opportunities. Participants will be selected from among established scholar applicants, with a limit of30 or fewer.
The Neuroscience Summit looks to the future, as we neuroscientists, incorporating novel frames of reference across expertise, must strive to forge a bright future and become the architects of the transformative impact of neuroscience upon society.
Participants will attend and engage in a variety of panels and sessions designed to meld minds over the emerging challenges of neuroscience and network with the foremost leaders. The carefully orchestrated schedule and unique environment are designed to maximize the potential for understanding, forward-thinking dialogue, and partnership on a wide range of complex issues.
Application is on a rolling basis.
Past and upcoming editions
Past editions of the Summit were held on top of the Swiss mountains of Crans-Montana. The venue for upcoming editions of the Summit will be announced shortly.
Chairs of the Summit
Luigi Pulvirenti Director, Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies, London, UK
Pierre J. Magistretti King Abdullah University Science Technology, Thuwal, SA; École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne & Université de Lausanne (emer.)
Selected Past Discussion Leaders:
Huda Akil Director, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute & Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Past President Society for Neuroscience. USA
Susan Amara Scientific Director, National Institute for Mental Health. Past President Society for Neuroscience. USA
Erwin Bottinger, Wyss Center for Bio- and Neuroengineering, Geneva, Switzerland
Gyorgy Buzsaki The Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, NYU School of Medicine, New York. USA
Siddhartan Chandran Director & CEO, UK Dementia Research Institute, London, UK
Alon Chen President, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Chiara Cirelli, University of Wisconsin. USA
Bart De Strooper, Founding Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute, London
Daniel Geschwind, Director, Neurogenetic Program & MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics. UCLA. USA
Nadine Gogolla, Director, Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Steve Goldman, Director of Rochester’s Center for Translational Neuromedicine, USA
Viviana Gradinaru, Director, Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research, Caltech, USA
Christof Koch The Allen Institute, Seattle. USA
Sean Hill, Founding Director of the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatic, University of Toronto, Canada
Marion Leboyer Professor & Chair, Dept of Psychiatry Université Paris-Est & INSERM U 955, Paris, France
Juan Lerma, Vice-President, European Brain Council, & Past Secretary, FENS
Brian Litt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Robert Malenka Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor, Stanford University. USA
Henry Markram Founding Director, The Blue Brain Project & Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne. Switzerland
John Morrison, President, Society for Neuroscience, USA
Pierluigi Nicotera Chairman & Scientific Director, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn. Germany
Marty Saggese, CEO, Society for Neuroscience, USA
Susumu Tonegawa Nobel Laureate. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. USA
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin. USA