The world's largest brain research prize is Danish and is awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation. Each year, we award 10 million DKK (approx. 1,3 million€) to one or more brain researchers who have had a ground-breaking impact on brain research.
The Brain Prize Winners 2024
Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky have made pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and have made seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s structure, dynamics and the emergence of cognition and behaviour.
Professors Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski, and Haim Sompolinsky have pioneered the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and made seminal contributions to our understanding of the brain.
A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen has turned movement ‘off‘ and ‘on’ in genetically modified laboratory mice by controlling specific brain cells.
Three top international researchers, Professors Christine Holt (UK), Erin Schuman (USA) and Michael Greenberg (USA), were presented with The Brain Prize 2023 by HRH The Crown Prince at a ceremony in Copenhagen.