The Brain Prize

The Brain Prize er en international hjerneforskningspris, der årligt uddeles af Lundbeckfonden til en eller flere forskere, der har udmærket sig ved et ekstraordinært bidrag til hjerneforskningen.^[1] Prisen er på 10 mio. danske kroner og er verdens største hjerneforskningspris.^[2] Prisen anerkender internationale, originale og indflydelsesrige fremskridt inden for alle områder af neurovidenskaben, herunder grundlæggende forskning i molekylære, cellulære, fysiologiske og farmakologiske mekanismer, undersøgelser af adfærd og kognition, fremskidt inden for teknologi til overvågning af nervesystemet og klinisk forskning om årsager, behandling og forebyggelse af neurologiske og psykiatriske lidelser.^[3]

Prismodtagerne vælges af eksperter inden for hjerneforskning, som besidder relevant og omfattende viden på området, og som er respekterede af det internationale videnskabelige samfund.^[4]     

Vinderne skal efter kåringen være til rådighed for dansk hjerneforskning det efterfølgende år, således at danske hjerneforskere får mulighed for at lære af internationale topforskere.^[5]

Prisen blev første gang uddelt i 2011 med det formål at fremme interessen for hjerneforskning og stimulere dansk forskning ved at styrke samspillet med europæisk hjerneforskning og det videnskabelige grundlag for fremskidt inden for forebyggelse, diagnose og behandling af sygdomme i hjernen og nervesystemet.^[3]

• Richard Morris (formand). Professor, University of Edinburgh, Storbritannien
• Story C. Landis (næstformand). Dr., Ph.D., USA
• Joseph Coyle. Professor, McLean Hospital, Harvard, USA
• Geoffrey A. Donnan. Professor og leder, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australien
• Mu-ming Poo, Professor, CAS Shanghai, China
• Ole Petter Ottersen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Philip Scheltens. Professor og leder, Alzheimer Center, Nederlandene
• Irene Tracey. Professor, Oxford Universitet, John Radcliffe Hospital, Storbritannien

År	Modtagere	Land	Motivation
2011[6]	Péter Somogyi		”For their wide-ranging, technically and conceptually brilliant research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially in the hippo¬campus, a region that is crucial for certain forms of memory"[7]
	Tamás Freund
	György Buzsáki
2012[2]	Christine Petit		"For their unique, world-leading contributions to our understanding of the genetic regulation of the development and functioning of the ear, and for elucidating the causes of many of the hundreds of inherited forms of deafness"[8]
	Karen Steel
2013[9]	Ernst Bamberg		"For their invention and refinement of optogenetics. This revolutionary technique allows genetically specified populations of neurons to be turned on or off with light, offering not only the ability to elucidate the characteristics of normal and abnormal neural circuitry but also new approaches to treatment of brain disorders"[10]
	Edward Boyden
	Karl Deisseroth
	Peter Hegemann
	Gero Miesenböck
	Georg Nagel
2014[11]	Giacomo Rizzolatti		"For their pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning such complex human functions as literacy, numeracy, motivated behaviour and social cognition, and for their efforts to understand cognitive and behavioural disorders"[12]
	Stanislas Dehaene
	Trevor W. Robbins
2015[13]	Winfried Denk		"For invention, refinement and use of two-photon microscopy to provide detailed, dynamic images of activity in individual nerve cells, dendrites and synapses, thereby transforming the study of development, plasticity and functional circuitry of the brain"[14]
	Arthur Konnerth
	Karel Svoboda
	David W. Tank
2016[15]	Timothy Bliss		"For their ground-breaking research on the cellular and molecular basis of Long-Term Potentiation and the demonstration that this form of synaptic plasticity underpins spatial memory and learning"[16]
	Graham Collingridge
	Richard G. Morris
2017[17]	Wolfram Schultz		"For their multidisciplinary analysis of brain mechanisms that link learning to reward, which has far-reaching implications for the understanding of human behaviour, including disorders of decision-making in conditions such as gambling, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour and schizophrenia"[18]
	Peter Dayan
	Ray Dolan
2018[19]	Bart De Strooper		"For their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease, with far-reaching implications for the development of new therapeutic interventions as well as for the understanding of other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain'"
	Michel Goedert
	Christian Haass
	John Hardy
2019[19]	Marie-Germaine Bousser Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve Anne Joutel Hugues Chabriat		"For 'their groundbreaking research on the clinical, genetic, cellular and molecular basis of a brain syndrome, known as CADASIL. Their achievement is a beautiful illustration of a clinical observation leading to fundamental discoveries about brain disease with implications for the understanding of causes of dementia, migraine and stroke."
2020[19]	Huda Zoghbi		"For their fundamental and pioneering work on Rett syndrome. Their work established the importance of epigenetic regulation in both brain development and the maintenance of normal adult brain function. It also points to novel opportunities for treatment of this and other neurodevelopmental disorders".
	Adrian Bird
2021	Lars Edvinsson		"for their groundbreaking work on the causes and treatment of migraine"
	Peter Goadsby	/
	Michael A. Moskowitz
	Jes Olesen
2022	Silvia Arber		"for having revolutionized our understanding of the neuronal cell types and circuits underlying movement."[20]
	Ole Kiehn
	Martyn Goulding	/
2023	Michael E. Greenberg		"for having revolutionized our understanding of how neurons regulate the thousands of different proteins – the building blocks of life, that are needed to support brain development, plasticity and maintenance."[21]
	Christine Holt
	Erin Schuman

1. ^ H.K.H. Kronprinsen forestår overrækkelsen af The Brain Prize 2017
2. ^ ^{a b} To europæiske forskere modtager The Brain Prize
3. ^ ^{a b} "Arkiveret kopi". Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 14. september 2017.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Arkiveret kopi". Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 14. september 2017.
5. ^ "Arkiveret kopi". Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 14. september 2017.
6. ^ Stor dansk hjernepris til ungarske forskere
7. ^ "Prize Winners 2011 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
8. ^ "Prize Winners 2012 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 15. september 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
9. ^ »And the Oscar goes to … optogenetik!«
10. ^ "Prize Winners 2013 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
11. ^ Og hjerne-Oscar’en går til… det menneskelige sind!
12. ^ "Prize Winners 2014 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
13. ^ The Brain Prize: Revolutionerende teknologi vinder verdens største hjernepris
14. ^ "Prize Winners 2015 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 5. januar 2019. Hentet 2017-09-15.
15. ^ Verdens største hjernepris til forskning i hukommelsens mysterier
16. ^ "Prize Winners 2016 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 14. september 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
17. ^ Prisvindende forskning: Vi lærer gennem belønning
18. ^ "The Brain Prize Winners 2017 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org (engelsk). Arkiveret fra originalen 4. juli 2017. Hentet 2017-09-15.
19. ^ ^{a b c} "Arkiveret kopi". Arkiveret fra originalen 7. august 2020. Hentet 21. juli 2020.
20. ^ "Laureates 2022". Arkiveret fra originalen 5. april 2023. Hentet 2. november 2023.
21. ^ Laureates 2023