The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients
2004 Seymour Benzer
2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi
2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists
2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London 2009 Jeffrey C. Hall, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Maine; Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University; and Michael Young, professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University 2010 Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research 2011 Huda Zoghbi 2012 Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco 2013 Eve Marder 2014 Thomas Jessell 2015 Carla Shatz and Michael Greenberg 2016 Mu-ming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and (University of Cambridge) 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky 2023 Huda Akil