Pradel Research Award
The Pradel Research Award is an award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in neuroscience . It has been awarded since 2012 to scientists in the middle of their scientific careers who have made important contributions to the understanding of the nervous system . The prize money of 50,000 US dollars can be given to an institution of their own choice to support research in the neurosciences.
In 1947, a certain Jules Pradel bequeathed a sum of money to the NAS to support scientific work on the human central nervous system and related fields.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Eulogy |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Dora E. Angelaki | For her fundamental discoveries on mechanisms of representation of vestibular sensory stimuli within the mammalian brain. |
| 2013 | Kenneth C. Catania | Dr. Catania is a pioneering neuroethologist who has carried out highly imaginative investigations of the neural basis of sensory behavior in model organisms. His comparative studies of mammals that possess specialized sensory capacities have led to discoveries of fundamental principles of behavior, sensory processing, and brain organization, and have resulted in new insights about the evolution of the nervous system. |
| 2014 | Allison J. Doupe | For her groundbreaking work using song birds to reveal important features of how neural circuits process information and are shaped by experience. |
| 2015 | Catherine G. Dulac | For her pioneering contributions to the molecular biology of pheromone signaling in mammals and discoveries of neural mechanisms underlying sex-specific social behaviors including mating, aggression and parenting. |
| 2016 | Alex L. Kolodkin | For his pioneering work on neuronal development research relating to the establishment of neuronal connectivity. He is known for his work on neuronal guidance cues and their receptors, the discovery of semaphorins, and unveiling guidance cue roles in neural circuit assembly and function in insects and mammals. |
| 2017 | Karel Svoboda | For his pioneering work to develop technologies for imaging cellular and synaptic structure and activity in the brain, and for using these methods to obtain insight into how the brain represents and stores information about sensory stimuli and transforms such information into action during motivated behavior. |
| 2018 | Silvia Arber | For her insightful and innovative studies revealing at the cellular and molecular level the developmental mechanisms and organizational principles of motor circuit wiring in the spinal cord and brainstem that enable the execution of specific motor tasks. |
| 2019 | Liqun Luo | For his pioneering work in developing genetic mosaic methods that have revolutionized the study of diverse biological processes such as cell fate specification and cell morphogenesis and for using these methods to obtain insight into the development of wiring specificity in the nervous system of vertebrates and invertebrates. |
| 2020 | Leslie B. Vosshall | For her seminal discoveries about the nature and organization of insect olfactory systems. She identified multiple classes of sensory receptors in Drosophila, defined the rules by which they recognize odors and subsequently richly extended this work to sensory biology and integration in the disease-bearing mosquito Aedes aegypti. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 1976/77 - National Academy of Sciences in the Google Book Search USA