The presence of women, including women of color, in powerful leadership positions in the field of neuroscience continues to grow. 

Lisa Monteggia was named Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee following a nation-wide search. Dr. Monteggia previously held a successful and productive professorship at UT Southwestern.

Nancy Abu-Bonsrah made history as the first black woman to become a neurosurgery resident at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She came to the US from Ghana at age 15 and completed her medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham was appointed the director of a new, interdisciplinary neuroscience institute at Carnegie Mellon University. The institute intends to take advantage of Carnegie Mellon's distinctive intellectual strengths, as well as Dr. Shinn-Cunningham's, to propel brain science to a new level.