Eric R. Kandel

Awards

1. 1983

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the application of cell biology techniques to the study of behavior, revealing mechanisms underlying learning and memory.

2. 1987

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For elucidating the mechanisms of learning and memory in nerve cells.

3. 1999

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the elucidation of the organismic, cellular and molecular mechanisms whereby short term memory is converted to a long term form.

4. 2000

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system