Brain Prize
The Brain Prize is a science prize that has been awarded by the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation , based in Copenhagen , since 2011 .
The prize is endowed with one million euros . It is awarded to one or more scientists who have made outstanding contributions to European neuroscience . There are no special requirements for the award winners in terms of employment or formal retirement , but it is expected that they will be able to continue their research for another decade.
Award winners
- 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 G. Morris
- 2017 Peter Dayan , Ray Dolan , Wolfram Schultz
- 2018 Bart De Strooper , Michel Goedert , Christian Haass , John A. Hardy
- 2019 Marie-Germaine Bousser , Hugues Chabriat , Anne Joutel , Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
- 2020 Adrian Bird , Huda Zoghbi