About FAONS
The purpose of the Federation is to promote the advancement of neuroscience research and education in the Asian Oceanian regions, which include Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand and Islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Federation shall aim also at contributing to the advancement of neuroscience worldwide.
Executive Committee and Council
The Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies
FAONS Executive Committee Members (2017-18)
President: Wing-Ho Yung, DPhil (Oxford)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
email: whyung@cityu.edu.hk
FAONS President
Prof. Wing-Ho Yung, DPhil (Oxford)
Chair Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Department of Neuroscience (NS)
City University of Hong Kong
email: whyung@cityu.edu.hk
Secretary General
Treasurer
Secretary General: Prof. Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia
email: battuvshin@mnums.edu.mn
Treasurer: Prof. Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
Tohoku University, Japan
email: tsutsui@tohoku.ac.jp
Honorary President: Prof. Masao Ito
RIKEN Brain Research Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa,Wako, Saitama 351-01, Japan
email: masao@brain.riken.go.jp
Prof. Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren
Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolia
email: battuvshin@mnums.edu.mn
Past President
Prof. Ken-Ichiro Tsutsui
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
email: tsutsui@tohoku.ac.jp
Past President: Michisuke Yuzake
Keio University Graduate School of Medicine
email: myuzaki@a5.keio.jp
Michisuke Yuzaki
Member Societies
For a list of FAONS member societies and contact details, please go to the About FAONS page.
FAONS Member Societies and their representatives
Australasian Neuroscience Society
(Representing Australian and New Zealand Neuroscientists)
Prof. Linda J. Richards (President)
Deputy Director, Queensland Brain Institute
Chair, Australian Brain Alliance
Tel: +61 7 334 66355
email: richards@uq.edu.au
Prof. Wickliffe C. Abraham, (President Elect)
Co-Director, Brain Research New Zealand-Rangahau Roro Aotearoa
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Otago
Tel: +64-(0)3-479-7648
email: cabraham@psy.otago.ac.nz
The Chinese Neuroscience Society
Prof. Shumin Duan (President)
Department of Neurobiology Zhejiang University School of Medicine Zhejiang University, P.R. China
email: duanshumin@zju.edu.cn
Prof. Shigang He (Secretary-In-General)
email: shiganghe@moon.ibp.ac.cn
Taiwan Neuroscience Society
Prof. Wen-Sung Lai (President)
Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
email: wslai@ntu.edu.tw
Prof. Chien-Yuan Pan (Secretary General)
Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
email: cypan@ntu.edu.tw
The Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences
Prof. Sung-Oh Huh (President)
email: s0huh@hallym.ac.kr
Prof. Sung-Jin Jeong (Committe member)
email: sjjeong@kbri.re.kr
Indian Academy of Neuroscience
Dr. Subrata Sinha (Vice President)
National Brain Research Centre
N.H.8, Nainwal Mode Manesar- 122 050
email: subrata.sinha@nbrc.ac.in
Thai Neuroscience Society
Prof. Piyarat Govitrapong (Representative)
email: piyarat.gov@mahidol.ac.th
Associate Professor Kanokwan Tilokskulchai
email: siktl@mahidol.ac.th
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Siriraj Medicine, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand
email: scsct@mahidol.th
Mongolian Neuroscience Society
Dr. Battuvshin Lkhagvasuren (Executive Director)
Science and Technology Center, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences. Zorig street 3, Ulaanbaatar 14210 Tel: +97699192738
email: battuvshin@neuroscience.mn
The Hong Kong Society of Neurosciences
Prof. Ying-Shing Chan (International Representative)
Department of Physiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, HKSAR Tel: (852) 28199263 Fax: (852) 28559730
email: yschan@hku.hk
Japan Neuroscience Society
Prof. Tadashi Isa (President)
National Institute for Physiological Sciences,
Mydodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
email: isa.tadashi.7u@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Malaysian Society of Neurosciences
Dr. Muzaimi Mustapha (Vice President)
Universiti Sains Malaysia
email: mmuzaimi@usm.my
Iran Neuroscience Society
Prof. Mohammad Taghi Joghataei (President)
Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine,
Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Telefax: 98 21 8862 2689
email: mt.joghataei@yahoo.com
Prof. Abbas Haghparast (General Secretary)
Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, P.O. Box 19615-1178, Tehran, Iran
Telefax: 98 21 2242 1624
email: haghparast@sbmu.ac.ir
Singapore Neuroscience Association
Prof. S. Thameem Dheen (President)
Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
email: antstd@nus.edu.sg
Phillippine Society for Neuroscience
Dr. Cesar V. Borlongan (President)
Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair, University of South Florida College of Medicine
email: cborlongan@health.usf.edu
Neuroscience Society of Sri Lanka
Dr. Ranil De Silva (President)
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka Tel: 94-11-2636364 Fax: 94-11-5524323
email: ranil@sjp.ac.lk
Neuroscience Society of Nepal (NSN)
Dr. Sunil Dhungel (President)
Associate Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Clinical Physiology, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS) Kathmandu, Nepal
email: sunil.dhungel@nsnnepal.org
website: http://nsnnepal.org/
Tel: 9779851214177
Dr. Ajaya Jung Kunwar (Vice President)
Associate Professor, Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS) Kathmandu, Nepal
email: ajayakunwar@gmail.com
Tel: 9779852026560