Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize
| Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation, The Brain Prize ("The Brain Prize") | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The Foundation awards The 1 million Euro Brain Prize. The Brain Prize is awarded to one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience and who are still active in research. |
| Country | Denmark |
| Presented by | A Royal Highness and the Chairman of the board |
| First awarded | 2011 |
| Official website | http://www.thebrainprize.org |
The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize, also known as The Brain Prize, is an international scientific award honouring "one or more scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to European neuroscience and who are still active in research".[1] Founded in 2011 by the Lundbeck Foundation. The prize is associated with a €1 million award to the nominees, who can be of any nationality although, according to the Prize criteria, "the research for which they are nominated must have been in Europe or in collaboration with researchers in Europe".
Laureates
- 2011 Péter Somogyi, Tamás Freund, György Buzsáki
- 2012 Christine Petit, Karen Steel
- 2013 Ernst Bamberg, Edward Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Gero Miesenböck, Georg Nagel
- 2014 Giacomo Rizzolatti, Stanislas Dehaene, Trevor W. Robbins
- 2015 Winfried Denk, Arthur Konnerth, Karel Svoboda, David W. Tank
- 2016 Timothy Bliss, Graham Collingridge & Richard Morris
References
- ↑ The Brain Prize, official website
See also
- The Kavli Prize
- The Mind & Brain Prize
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