Dear friends and colleagues,

This is the 2nd announcement for our 2017 AKN annual meeting.

On behalf of AKN officers and members, we are so much thankful to our sponsors who continue to support the AKN annual meeting. Owing to the generous support from our sponsors, we are happy that we will be able to continue our exciting annual meeting. As the result, we have the following exciting announcements.

First, we made a reservation at Washington Plaza Hotel (10 Thomas Cir. NW, Washington, DC 20005; http://www.washingtonplazahotel.com/) for seated dinner. It is just 0.4 miles from Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Second, the pre-registration web page is: https://goo.gl/forms/CfMWfGJlbtdSIxhL2. If you plan to join our AKN 2017 meeting, please go to the link above and preregister now! Seated dinner will be provided, however, seating is limited, and priority will be given to:

• Current AKN members.

• Those who pre-register.

• Those who arrive on or prior to 6:30pm

Third, we are currently accepting the application for AKN outstanding research awards (for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and junior faculty). The deadline is has been extended. Now it is Oct 23 (Monday), so please apply! (see details in the 1st announcement for AKN Annual Meeting 2017 on our AKN website (http://www.akneuro.org).

Owing to very generous sponsors, we will continue to provide each pre- or postdoctoral awardee with a $400 prize and junior faculty awardee with $1,000. We hope many of you apply for this great opportunity. For details of submission, please refer to our AKN website (http://www.akneuro.org).

Forth, we will prepare great gifts for you and raffle them, as we did last year. We will have fancy gadgets (about 3 android tablets) up for raffle. Outstanding research awardees will be excluded in this raffle. The raffle ticket will be provided only to those who show up at or before 6:30pm.

So, we believe that we will have another great meeting with lots of fun, great networking and great science. Because we have limited seats, please go to the link above and preregister now!

We greatly look forward to meeting every one of you in our 2017 AKN meeting!!!

Best wishes,