Sixteen-year-old Samuel Richards from Australia has won the 2024 International Brain Bee (IBB) World Championship. Second place went to Lisa Wei from Canada, and third place to Jerry (Siqi) Pan from China, both also 16.
The competition, held in conjunction with Neuroscience 2024 (the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience), brought together 37 national champions from around the world. Participants completed three separate tests (written exam, neuroanatomy/neurohistology, and patient diagnosis) at the beginning of the World Championship. Based on their total combined scores, 10 finalists advanced to the Live Judging Session, a question-and-answer round with four prominent neuroscientist judges. The event included lectures, workshops, and team activities, all aimed at inspiring the next generation of neuroscientists.
The top five winners, including Samuel, Lisa, Jerry, Harini Venkatesh (USA), and Chi Lok Chen (Macao), will participate in the 2025 IBB NextGen event at the Alzheimer’s Disease International Conference in Toronto, Canada, in July 2025.