Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
| The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system |
| Location | Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut |
| Presented by | Gruber Foundation |
| Reward(s) | US$500,000 |
| First awarded | 2004 |
| Website | gruber |
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.[1] It is awarded annually to scientists for significant discoveries that have enhanced the comprehension of the neurological system.[1] The prize comprises a gold medal engraved with the recipient's name and a citation detailing the accomplishment for which the recipient is being recognized.[1]
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients
[edit]- 2004 Seymour Benzer[2]
- 2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi[2]
- 2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists[2]
- 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute[2]
- 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London[2]
- 2009 Jeffrey C. Hall, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Maine; Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University; and Michael Young, professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University
- 2010 Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research[2]
- 2011 Huda Zoghbi[2]
- 2012 Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco[2]
- 2013 Eve Marder[2]
- 2014 Thomas Jessell[2]
- 2015 Carla Shatz and Michael Greenberg[2]
- 2016 Mu-ming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley[3]
- 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University[4]
- 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)[5]
- 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi[2]
- 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne[6]
- 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh[2]
- 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky[7]
- 2023 Huda Akil[8]
- 2024 Cornelia Bargmann and Gerald M. Rubin[9][2]
See also
[edit]- The Brain Prize
- Golden Brain Award
- Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
- W. Alden Spencer Award
- Karl Spencer Lashley Award
- Mind & Brain Prize
- List of medicine awards
- List of neuroscience awards
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Peter Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize". Harvard Medical School.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Neuroscience Laureates | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ^ Sanders, Robert (7 June 2016). "Mu-ming Poo awarded $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize". Berkeley News. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- ^ "2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Press Release | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "2018 Gruber Neuroscience Prize | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- ^ 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
- ^ 2023 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
- ^ 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize