Neuronal Plasticity Prize

The Neuronal Plasticity Prize was a scientific prize in the field of neuronal plasticity awarded annually by the Ipsen Foundation to three people between 1990 and 2016 .

The jury decided on the award based on the scientific achievements and the published work; an application for the award was not expected. The prize was endowed with 60,000 euros.

Award winners

• 2016 Pierre Magistretti (Lausanne, Switzerland), David Altwell (London, United Kingdom), Marcus Raichle (St. Louis, United States)
• 2015 Mark Bear (Cambridge, USA), David Porteous (Edinburgh, UK), Thomas Bourgeron (Paris, France) - Genes, Synapses and Psychiatric Disorders.
• 2014 Barry Everitt (Cambridge, United Kingdom), George F. Koob (La Jolla, United States), Michel Le Moal (Bordeaux, France) - Neuropsychology of drug addiction.
• 2013 Tim VP Bliss (London, United Kingdom), Richard GM Morris (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) and Yadin Dudai (Rehovot, Israel) - Mechanisms of memory.
• 2012 Catherine Dulac (Cambridge, USA), Michael Meaney (Montreal, Canada) and J. David Sweatt (Birmingham, USA) - Epigenetics and brain function.
• 2011 Helen J. Neville (Eugene, USA), Isabelle Peretz (Montreal, Canada) and Robert J. Zatorre (Montreal, Canada) - Music and Brain Plasticity.
• 2010 Thomas Insel (Bethesda, USA), Bruce McEwen (New York, USA) and Donald Pfaff (New York, USA) - Neuroendocrine control of behavior.
• 2009 Alim Louis Benabid (Grenoble, France), Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, USA) and Miguel Nicolelis (Durham, USA) - Brain-Machine interaction.
• 2008 Jean-Pierre Changeux (Paris, France), Peter W. Kalivas (Charleston, USA) and Eric J. Nestler (Dallas, USA) - Molecular targets of drugs abuse.
• 2007 Nikos K. Logothetis (Tübingen, Germany), Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma, Italy) and Keiji Tanaka (Wako, Japan) - Neurophysiology of cognition.
• 2006 Eckart Gundelfinger (Magdeburg, Germany), Mary Kennedy (Pasadena, USA) and Morgan Sheng (Cambridge, USA) - Synapse protein complexes in neuronal plasticity.
• 2005 Ann Graybiel (Cambridge, USA), Trevor Robbins (Cambridge, UK) and Wolfram Schultz (Cambridge, UK) - Motivation and associative learning.
• 2004 James Gusella (Boston, USA), Jean-Louis Mandel (Strasbourg, France) and Huda Zoghbi (Houston, USA) - triplet diseases and neuronal plasticity.
• 2003 François Clarac (Marseille, France), Sten Grillner (Stockholm, Sweden) and Serge Rossignol (Montreal, Canada) - Motor control.
• 2002 Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (San Francisco, USA), Ronald McKay (Bethesda, USA) and Samuel Weiss (Calgary, Canada) - Stem cells in the central nervous system.
• 2001 Albert Galaburda (Boston, USA), John Morton (London, UK) and Elizabeth Spelke (Cambridge, USA) - Psychological development in children.
• 2000 Tomas Hökfelt (Stockholm, Sweden), Lars Olson (Stockholm, Sweden) and Lars Terenius (Stockholm, Sweden) - Neuromodulation in neuronal plasticity.
• 1999 Masakazu Konishi (Pasadena, USA), Peter Marler (Davis, USA) and Fernando Nottebohm (Millbrook, USA) - Animal models.
• 1998 Heinrich Betz (Frankfurt, Germany), Gerald Fischbach (Boston, USA) and Uel McMahan (Stanford, USA) - Formation of synapses at the molecular level.
• 1997 Antonio Damasio (Iowa City, USA), Richard Frackowiak (London, United Kingdom) and Michael Merzenich (San Francisco, USA) - Brain maps and their plasticity.
• 1996 Friedrich Bonhoeffer (Tübingen, Germany), Corey Goodman (Berkeley, USA) and Marc Tessier-Lavigne (San Francisco, USA) - Axonal guidance.
• 1995 Jacques Melher (Paris, France), Brenda Milner (Montreal, Canada) and Mortimer Mishkin (Bethesda, USA) - Cognitive processes in humans and primates.
• 1994 Mariano Barbacid (Princeton, USA), Yves-Alain Barde (Planegg-Martinsried, Germany) and Hans Thoenen (Planegg-Martinsried, Germany) - Neurotrophic factors.
• 1993 Per Andersen (Oslo, Norway), Masao Itō (Wako Saitama, Japan) and Constantino Sotelo (Paris, France) - Neuronal plasticity at the synaptic level in the hippocampus and the cerebellum.
• 1992 Philippe Ascher (Paris, France), Kjell Fuxe (Stockholm, Sweden) and Terje Lømo (Oslo, Norway) - Interactions at the receptors level.
• 1991 Ursula Bellugi (La Jolla, USA), Wolf Singer (Frankfurt, Germany) and Torsten Wiesel (New York, USA) - Plasticity in the visual system.
• 1990 Albert Aguayo (Montreal, Canada), Anders Björklund (Lund, Sweden) and Fred Gage (La Jolla, USA) - neuronal grafting.

Web links

• Neurosciences at the Fondation IPSEN ( Memento from June 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive )