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
Official website	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.

The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.

Recipients

2016 Mu-ming Poo, UC Berkeley^[1]
2015 Carla Shatz, Michael Greenberg
2014 Thomas Jessell
2013 Eve Marder
2012 Lily Jan, Yuh Nung Jan
2011 Huda Zoghbi
2010 Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
2009 Jeffrey 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
2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute
2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists
2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi
2004 Seymour Benzer

References

↑ S, Robert; ers; 7, Media relations | June; 7, 2016June; 2016 (2016-06-07). "Mu-ming Poo awarded $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2016-06-10.

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