Gruber Prize in Neuroscience

Award

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 award| 2004
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.[1] It is awarded annually to scientists from around the world for significant discoveries that have enhanced the comprehension of the neurological system.[1] The prize comprises a gold medal engraved with the recipient's name and a citation detailing the accomplishment for which the recipient is being recognized.[1]

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

## Recipients

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* 2004 Seymour Benzer[2]
* 2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi[2]
* 2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists[2]
* 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute[2]
* 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London[2]
* 2009 Jeffrey C. 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
* 2010 Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research[2]
* 2011 Huda Zoghbi[2]
* 2012 Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco[2]
* 2013 Eve Marder[2]
* 2014 Thomas Jessell[2]
* 2015 Carla Shatz and Michael Greenberg[2]
* 2016 Mu-ming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley[3]
* 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University[4]
* 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)[5]
* 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi[2]
* 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne[6]
* 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh[2]
* 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky[7]
* 2023 Huda Akil[8]
* 2024 Cornelia Bargmann and Gerald M. Rubin[9][2]
* 2025 Edward F. Chang[10]

## See also

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* The Brain Prize
* Golden Brain Award
* Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
* W. Alden Spencer Award
* Karl Spencer Lashley Award
* Mind & Brain Prize
* List of medicine awards
* List of neuroscience awards

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Peter Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize". Harvard Medical School.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Neuroscience Laureates | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
3. ^ Sanders, Robert (7 June 2016). "Mu-ming Poo awarded $500,000 Gruber Neuroscience Prize". Berkeley News. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
4. ^ "2017 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Press Release | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
5. ^ "2018 Gruber Neuroscience Prize | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
6. ^ "2020 Gruber Neuroscience Prize | Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
7. ^ 2022 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
8. ^ 2023 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
9. ^ 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize
10. ^ 2025 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

## External links

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* Gruber Foundation Web site
* Gruber Prizes nomination page
* Facebook page for The Gruber Foundation