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The award includes a trophy, a $50,000 prize, and a 20-minute lecture at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. The prize is named after Sheila Essey (wife of Richard Essey) who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1994.

Awardees

Source: American Academy of Neurology

1996 Robert H. Brown Jr.
1996 Teepue Siddique
1997 Jeffrey Rothstein
1998 Theodore Munsat
1998 Lewis P. Rowland
1999 Don Cleveland
2000 Jean Pierre Julien
2001 Pamela Shaw
2002 Serge Przedborski
2003 Stanley Appel
2004 Peter Nigel Leigh
2005 Michael Strong
2006 Peter Carmeliet
2007 Christopher Henderson
2008 Wim Robberecht
2009 Merit Cudkowicz
2009 Orla Hardiman
2010 Clive Svendsen, PhD
2011 Leonard van den Berg
2012 Christopher Shaw, MD, FRACP
2013 Rosa Rademakers
2013 Bryan J. Traynor
2014 Jeremy Shefner
2015 Robert Bowser, PhD
2015 Adriano Chiò
2016 Ammar Al-Chalabi
2017 John M. Ravits
2018 Timothy Miller
2019 Aaron Gitler

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