Join The Academy as Dr. Jaime Rubin, Vice Chair for Investigator Development at Columbia University, addresses relevant topics and skills required for successful funding and grantsmanship.

This symposium presents a remarkable opportunity to convene with other researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders to discuss the extraordinary progress and immense potential of new drug therapies and technologies in paving the way for a brighter future in cancer treatment.

Scientists working in basic, translational, and clinical cancer metabolism research are invited to join the Academy in New York on April 17th to discuss the intersection between cell signaling and metabolism.

Join The Academy as Dr. Jaime Rubin, Vice Chair for Investigator Development at Columbia University, addresses relevant topics and skills required for successful funding and grantsmanship.

The Leon Levy Scholarships in Neuroscience (LLSN) aim to promote groundbreaking neuroscience research in the five boroughs of New York City. The scholarships support the most innovative young researchers at a critical stage of their careers—their postdoctoral research—as they develop the new ideas and directions that will help establish them as independent neuroscientists.

This volume of Ann NY Acad Sci contains one perspective, on neuromodulators and neuroepigenetics of social behavior in ants; two reviews, one on the neurobiology of vocal communication in marmosets and the other on characterizing affiliative touch in humans and its role in advancing haptic design; one concise report; and six original research articles, including one on exploring the potential of meeting adolescent girls’ nutrient needs in urban Colombia using food-based recommendations.

This volume of Ann NY Acad Sci contains two Books in Brief; two perspectives, including one on automated behavioral scoring; two reviews; one concise report, from a Keystone Symposium on reimagining scientific conferences; and six original research articles, including one on how REG1A protects retinal photoreceptors from blue light damage and another on the role of insider knowledge in the trajectories of highly accomplished scientists.

This volume of Ann NY Acad Sci contains one Books in Brief; one perspective, on discordant mentoring relationships in STEMM; four reviews, including one on nonalcoholic liver disease and another on imagination for adaptive cognition; and six original research articles, including one on how the transcriptomic effects of the foraging gene shed light on pathways of pleiotropy and plasticity.

As the New York Academy of Sciences continues into its third century, Nicholas Dirks is at the helm of an extraordinary organization with a talented staff, a global community of more than 20,000 Members, and a network of top-echelon leaders in science, industry, academia, government and public policy. Bringing all these people together, the Academy is taking on COVID-19 and other world-wide challenges with the best solutions that science, technology, and bright minds can offer.