Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
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The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience is one of five, international awards made by The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Neuroscience Prize was established in 2000, and the annual prize is worth $500,000.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience
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The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org
Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience
, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php
Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is a U. S. philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.The foundation has two major activities...
, an American non-profit organization based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City. The Gruber Neuroscience Prize was established in 2000, and the annual prize is worth $500,000.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience
Society for Neuroscience
The Society for Neuroscience is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system.-History:...
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The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors and encourages educational excellence, social justice and scientific achievements that better the human condition. For more information about the Foundation and its priorities, please go to http://www.gruberprizes.org
Nominations for the Gruber Prizes in the women's rights, justice, neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
, genetics and cosmology categories are accepted at http://www.gruberprizes.org/Nominations/Nominations.php
Recipients
- 2011 Huda Zoghbi
- 2010 Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye InstituteNational Eye InstituteThe National Eye Institute is one of the US National Institutes of Health that was established in 1968. The mission of NEI is to prolong and protect the vision of the American people. The NEI conducts and performs research into treating and preventing diseases affecting the eye or vision....
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 LondonUniversity College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
- 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience InstituteOsaka Bioscience InstituteThe Osaka Bioscience Institute is an institute in Osaka, Japan, devoted to the study of bioscience. Scientists from it discovered the retinal protein pikachurin.-External links:*...
- 2006 Masao ItoMasao Itois a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute.He won the 2006 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, and the 1996 Japan Prize.-Life:...
and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists - 2005 Eric KnudsenEric KnudsenEric Knudsen is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford University. He is best known for his discovery, along with Masakazu Konishi, of a brain map of sound location in two dimensions in the barn owl, tyto alba...
and Masakazu KonishiMasakazu Konishiis a Japanese neurobiologist, known for his research on prey capture auditory systems of barn owls and singing in songbirds.-Life:After growing up in wartime Kyoto, Konishi moved to study at Sapporo Agricultural College, Hokkaido University. Konishi studied for his doctoral thesis on properties of... - 2004 Seymour BenzerSeymour BenzerSeymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...