Duke University

Since 2016, Summer Seminars in Neuroscience and Philosophy (SSNAP) has provided 20 fellows annually with opportunities to learn across disciplinary boundaries, form research teams, and propose joint projects. Fellows receive intensive instruction, engage in collaborative dialogues on important themes, and are trained in grant writing. A hallmark of SSNAP is its competitive sub-award mechanism, which provides up to $25,000 for 4-5 fellow-led research projects each year, enabling participants to continue their collaboration and generate publishable research after the seminar. SSNAP addresses a critical need for experiential, cross-disciplinary training opportunities at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and society. Fellows emerge from a truly interdisciplinary experience better prepared to advance impactful research careers and to connect neuroscience with broader societal questions. 

This grant supports the Dana NextGen objective to encourage rigorous, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary work between neuroscience and non-science disciplines to solve complex problems that cannot be answered by neuroscience alone.