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Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize

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Country
  
Denmark

First awarded
  
2011

Reward(s)
  
€1 million

Awarded for
  
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.

Presented by
  
A Royal Highness and the Chairman of the board

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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". 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
  • 2017 Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan and Ray Dolan
  • References

    Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize Wikipedia