Gruber Prize in Neuroscience

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Presented by Gruber Foundation First awarded 2004		Reward(s) US$500,000 Official website gruber.yale.edu
Awarded for Discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system Location Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut

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

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

Gruber Prize in Neuroscience Wikipedia

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