Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
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{{Infobox award
| name = The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
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| awarded_for = Discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system
| presenter = Gruber Foundation
| location = Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut
| reward = US$500,000
| year = 2004
| website = {{URL|http://gruber.yale.edu}}
}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Peter Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize |url=https://distinguishedawards.hms.harvard.edu/awards/peter-gruber-foundation-neuroscience-prize |website=Harvard Medical School}} It is awarded annually to scientists from around the world for significant discoveries that have enhanced the comprehension of the neurological system. 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.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience selection advisors are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients
- 2004 Seymour Benzer{{Cite web |title=Neuroscience Laureates {{!}} Gruber Foundation |url=https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience-laureates |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=gruber.yale.edu}}
- 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090628002034/http://www.umaine.edu/Default.htm University of Maine]; Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at [http://www.brandeis.edu/ Brandeis University]; and Michael Young, professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at [http://www.rockefeller.edu/ 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{{Cite web|url=http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/06/07/mu-ming-poo-awarded-500000-gruber-neuroscience-prize/|title=Mu-ming Poo awarded $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize|first=Robert|last=Sanders|date=7 June 2016|website=Berkeley News|access-date=10 June 2016}}
- 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University{{Cite web|url=https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience/press/2017-gruber-neuroscience-prize-press-release|title=2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Press Release | Gruber Foundation|website=gruber.yale.edu|accessdate=27 November 2021}}
- 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge){{Cite web|url=https://gruber.yale.edu/prize/2018-gruber-neuroscience-prize|title=2018 Gruber Neuroscience Prize | Gruber Foundation|website=gruber.yale.edu|accessdate=27 November 2021}}
- 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi
- 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne{{Cite web|title=2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize {{!}} Gruber Foundation|url=https://gruber.yale.edu/2020-gruber-neuroscience-prize#:~:text=Friedrich%20Bonhoeffer,%20PhD,%20Corey%20Goodman,the%20formation%20of%20neural%20circuits.|access-date=18 August 2020|website=gruber.yale.edu}}
- 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh
- 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky[https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize]
- 2023 Huda Akil[https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience 2023 Gruber Neuroscience Prize]
- 2024 Cornelia Bargmann and Gerald M. Rubin[https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize]
- 2025 Edward F. Chang[https://gruber.yale.edu/prize/2025-gruber-neuroscience-prize 2025 Gruber Neuroscience Prize]
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.gruber.yale.edu Gruber Foundation Web site]
- [https://gruber.yale.edu/prize-nominations Gruber Prizes nomination page]
- [https://www.facebook.com/GruberFoundation/ Facebook page for The Gruber Foundation]