National Institutes of Health
S-Index Challenge
Prize 2
2026Open science
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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.
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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.
Popular Science (2018) — Meet the folks designing the future of mouse mazes
Popular Science profiled Shuhan He and Maze Engineers, including automated mazes designed to reduce manual experiment handling.
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NIH S-INDEX CHALLENGE2026SSHARE INDEX
NIH S-Index Challenge2026
ConductScience receives Prize 2 for the SHARE Index
CONDUCTSCIENCE PRESS2026MAZE
ConductScience Press2026
The Maze Emoji Project and Unicode proposal: from 2020 submission to neuroscience coverage
NIH COMMON FUND2026Replication Prize
NIH Common Fund2026
Announcing the Winners of the NIH Replication Prize: Shaping the Future of Rigorous Science
NSF I-CORPS2025I-CORPS ↗
NSF I-Corps2025
ConductScience wins NIH S-Index Phase 1 Challenge
The Lancet
THE LANCET NEUROLOGY2023The Lancet Neurology2023
A neuroscientific emoji
KNOWING NEURONS2023NEURAL MAZE
Knowing Neurons2023
Making the Neuroscience Maze Emoji
HARVARD INNOVATION LABS2020Innovation
Labs
Labs
Harvard Innovation Labs2020
Resilient teams: how Harvard Innovation Labs ventures are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
THE HARVARD CRIMSON2020The Crimson
The Harvard Crimson2020
Harvard Innovation Labs ventures respond to coronavirus
DISCOVER2018Discover
Discover2018
How to build a better mouse maze
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