The Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars Program has been developed under the leadership of Banner Research and in partnership with ASU and the Biodesign Institute.
2025 applications are closed
Applications for this year’s Neuroscience Scholars Program are now closed.
COVID-19 vaccination requirements: Under the 2021 Executive Order issued by President Biden requiring all employees of federal contractors to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, ASU and Banner expect all neuroscience scholars selected for a position in the summer Neuroscience Scholars Program to be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation. Proof of vaccination will be required.
“Young people bring enormous curiosity and ideas to science and technology. Banner and ASU Biodesign Institute researchers are working to unlock medical and scientific mysteries in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Investment to support ambitious students will only help to accelerate our work”Josh LaBaer
Executive Director, ASU Biodesign Institute
“Offering science training programs to enthusiastic students inspires us all to remain passionately curious.”Lori Nisson
Family and Community Services Director, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and Banner Sun Health Research Institute
“Advancing the research education and training of great students, introducing them to talented researchers, and engaging them in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders: What could be better than that?”Eric Reiman
Executive Director, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute
Co-director, ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at ASU Biodesign Institute
Banner-ASU
Neuroscience Scholars
Imagine having the opportunity to spend eight weeks working side-by-side with some of the world’s most talented scientists, clinicians and researchers in an environment devoted to neuroscientific biomedical research and clinical care.
Banner-ASU Neuroscience Scholars is a paid, eight-week training program open to top-achieving college undergraduate and graduate science and social science students. Scholars work full-time on a research project under the mentorship of a Banner Research or ASU-Biodesign scientist or clinician to unlock medical and scientific mysteries in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, in a lab or clinical setting in the Greater Phoenix metropolitan area.
Research opportunities are divided into five separate tracks: basic and translational neuroscience; computational image analysis; healthy aging research; brain and body donation; and clinical neurodegenerative research. Each research track is correlated to a participating training facility.
As a part of the comprehensive program, Neuroscience Scholars also have an opportunity to: obtain hands-on training, attend educational seminars to boost their professional skills, learn about bioscience career options, practice scientific writing and create a scientific poster to showcase project outcomes and present their research at a concluding symposium.
Scholars are expected to commit 35-40 hours per week to the program. A stipend of $500/week for a total of $4,000 will be provided upon successful completion of the program. The overall aim is to give scholars cutting-edge experience in biomedical and clinical research.
The program capstone is a formal research symposium with mentors and institutional leaders, where scholars are required to deliver oral presentations, present project results and reflect on what they have accomplished during their tenure at Banner Research or ASU. Select students are nominated to deliver oral presentations at the event.
Past participants have gone on to achieve success and shared impressive accomplishments, including scientific abstract and manuscript publications, earning top national student rankings, gaining acceptance into first-rate graduate and medical schools and receiving national awards and scholarships.
