The Brain Prize
Award
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursNominees can be of any nationality. Prize winners are expected to interact with Danish brain researchers e.g. through lectures, master classes, seminars, exchange programmes for researchers or other activities agreed with and financially supported by the Lundbeck Foundation.
History
The Brain Prize was established by the Lundbeck Foundation in 2010 as a European prize and was awarded for the first time in 2011. Today the Prize is global.
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Selection committee
As of 2024, the selection committee for the prize consisted of:
- Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (chair) - Germany
- Carmen Sandi (vice chair) - Switzerland
- Eunjoon Kim - Korea
- Gina Turrigiano - USA
- Katrin Amunts - Germany
- Ole Kiehn - Denmark
- Ole Petter Ottersen - Norway
- Pamela Shaw - United Kingdom
- Sabine Kastner - USA
- Samuel Berkovic - Australia
Laureates
- Source: Lundbeck Foundation Archived 2020-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
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