He and Jonathan Cohen became the founding co-directors of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute when it opened in 2006.
[2][1] Tank was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
[3] Also in 2015, Tank was awarded the University of North Carolina's Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize.
[4] While at Bell Labs, Tank was involved in the development of functional MRI imaging technology; with Seiji Ogawa and others, the team published a series of papers first establishing the BOLD signal method of measuring brain activity.
[5] Tank's research interests at Princeton have recently focused on the physical mechanisms of neural circuit dynamics, particularly those that underlie short-term memory of motor activity in animal models.