Ann M. Graybiel

Ann M. Graybiel received the 2001 National Medal of Science

Ann M. Graybiel (born January 25, 1942 in Chestnut Hill (Massachusetts) ) is an American neurobiologist .

She is the daughter of space medic Ashton Graybiel . She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry in 1964 and a master's degree in biology from Tufts University in 1966 (as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow). In 1971 she received her PhD in neuroscience with Hans Lukas Teuber and Walle Nauta at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She stayed at MIT, where she became Assistant Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1983 (from 1994 Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience). From 2001 she was at the MIT McGovern Institute of Brain Research. In 2008, she became an Institute Professor at MIT, MIT's highest honor.

In particular, she examined the neural connections in the striatum . Since this also plays an important role in neural diseases such as Parkinson's disease , she became Harold S Diamond Professor of the National Parkinson Foundation in 2006.

In 2001 she received the National Medal of Science and in 2012 the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. She also received the Neuronal Plasticity Prize (2005), the Charles Judson Herrick Award (1978), the McKnight Award (1985) and the Williams and Wilkins Award from the American Association of Anatomists (1970). She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society (2016) and an external member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Commons : Ann Graybiel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage at MIT. (English). 
• Ann Martin Graybiel. kavli.org, 2012(English, with autobiography).