Press & Awards
Four NIH prizes. Featured in Nature.
NIH recognized our data-sharing index, our tools for reproducible behavioral research and two digital health tools, and Nature covered our automated mazes.
Awards & recognition
Awards that point back to the work.
Each award links to the story of the work it honors or to the organizer’s announcement.
NIH Office of AIDS Research
ARISE-HIV LAUNCH Challenge
Phase 1 winner for Capillary Health
National Institutes of Health
NIH S-Index Challenge
Prize 2 for the SHARE Index
NIH Common Fund
NIH Replication Prize
Track 2 winner
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
Supplements, Facts First
Phase 1 winner for Resin Health
Boston Business Journal
Innovators in Healthcare
2026 honoree: Shuhan He
ConductScience and MazeEngineers named NIH Replication Prize winners.
The NIH Replication Prize recognized the apparatus, software, methods, and publishing infrastructure behind reproducible behavioral research workflows. Read the ConductScience award story or open the official NIH announcement.
Press
Independent voices.
Coverage that has followed the tools, methods, and ideas behind ConductScience and MazeEngineers.
NIH ARISE-HIV LAUNCH Challenge, 2026
ConductScience named a Phase 1 winner for Capillary Health
The NIH Office of AIDS Research chose Capillary Health, scheduling software for long-acting HIV care, as one of 35 Phase 1 winners.
NIH S-Index Challenge, 2026
ConductScience receives Prize 2 for the SHARE Index
After advancing as a Phase 1 finalist, ConductScience received Prize 2 in the NIH S-Index Challenge for a metric designed to recognize exemplary data sharing behavior.
NIH Replication Prize, 2026
ConductScience and MazeEngineers named winners of the NIH Replication Prize
The NIH Replication Prize recognized ConductScience and MazeEngineers for field-deployed infrastructure that helps laboratories run behavioral research methods consistently across sites.
ConductScience Press, 2026
The Maze Emoji Project and Unicode proposal
The story behind the 2020 MAZE (OBJECT) emoji proposal, Unicode review record, and later neuroscience coverage in The Lancet Neurology and Knowing Neurons.
The Lancet Neurology, 2023
A neuroscientific emoji
The Lancet Neurology published the Maze Emoji Project case for a neuroscience maze emoji, authored by Louise Corscadden, Suhanee Mitragotri, and Shuhan He.
Nature, 2018
The mazes with minds of their own
Nature covered automated smart mazes and their role in reducing manual monitoring while improving behavioral data quality and reproducibility.
NIH, 2025
NIH challenge aimed at incentivizing data sharing recognizes Phase 1 winners
ConductScience was listed among NIH S-Index Phase 1 winners for advancing open data sharing in biomedical research.
HuffPost, 2017
Meet the Doctor Who Builds Modern Mouse Mazes
HuffPost profiled Shuhan He and MazeEngineers, covering how modern mouse mazes can support more consistent behavioral research.
Original article, 2018
Meet the folks designing the future of mouse mazes
A 2018 article covered Shuhan He and Maze Engineers, including automated mazes designed to reduce manual experiment handling.
Coverage archive
More coverage.
Official announcements, publications and reporting beyond the stories above.
NIH Office of AIDS Research, 2026
Announcing the NIH ARISE-HIV LAUNCH Challenge Winners
Boston Business Journal, 2026
Meet the Innovators in Healthcare 2026: Shuhan He, ConductScience
NIH Common Fund, 2026
Announcing the Winners of the NIH Replication Prize: Shaping the Future of Rigorous Science
NSF I-Corps, 2025
ConductScience wins NIH S-Index Phase 1 Challenge
Knowing Neurons, 2023
Making the Neuroscience Maze Emoji
Harvard Innovation Labs, 2020
Resilient teams: how Harvard Innovation Labs ventures are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Harvard Crimson, 2020
Harvard Innovation Labs ventures respond to coronavirus
Discover, 2018
How to build a better mouse maze
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