| 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.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients[edit]
- 2004 Seymour Benzer
- 2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi
- 2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists
- 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute
- 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
- 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
- 2011 Huda Zoghbi
- 2012 Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco
- 2013 Eve Marder
- 2014 Thomas Jessell
- 2015 Carla Shatz and Michael Greenberg
- 2016 Mu-ming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley[1]
- 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University[2]
- 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)[3]
- 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi
- 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne[4]
- 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh
- 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky[5]
- 2023 Huda Akil[6]
See also[edit]
- The Brain Prize
- Golden Brain Award
- The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
- W. Alden Spencer Award
- Karl Spencer Lashley Award
- The Mind & Brain Prize
- List of medicine awards
- List of neuroscience awards
References[edit]
- ^ 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