The Brain Prize

The Brain Prize: every winner

Every recorded recipient in one list, oldest first. An international neuroscience award founded by the Lundbeck Foundation in 2011. Presented annually in Denmark, it recognizes one or more active researchers for outstanding contributions to neuroscience. Carries DKK 10 million, shared among the recipients.

Browse The Brain Prize by year

51 recipients, 2011-2026

Year	Winner
2011	Tamás Freund
2011	György Buzsáki
2011	Péter Somogyi
2012	Christine Petit
2012	Karen Steel
2013	Ernst Bamberg
2013	Edward S. Boyden
2013	Karl Deisseroth
2013	Peter Hegemann
2013	Gero Miesenböck
2013	Georg Nagel
2014	Stanislas Dehaene
2014	Giacomo Rizzolatti
2014	Trevor W. Robbins
2015	Winfried Denk
2015	Arthur Konnerth
2015	Karel Svoboda
2015	David W. Tank
2016	Timothy Bliss
2016	Graham Collingridge
2016	Richard G. Morris
2017	Wolfram Schultz
2017	Ray Dolan
2017	Peter Dayan
2018	Bart De Strooper
2018	John Hardy
2018	Christian Haass
2018	Michel Goedert
2019	Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
2019	Anne Joutel
2019	Hugues Chabriat
2019	Marie-Germaine Bousser
2020	Huda Zoghbi
2020	Adrian Bird
2021	Lars Edvinsson
2021	Peter J. Goadsby
2021	Michael A. Moskowitz
2021	Jes Olesen
2022	Silvia Arber
2022	Ole Kiehn
2022	Martyn Goulding
2023	Michael E. Greenberg
2023	Christine Holt
2023	Erin Schuman
2024	Terrence Sejnowski
2024	Larry Abbott
2024	Haim Sompolinsky
2025	Michelle Monje
2025	Frank Winkler
2026	David Ginty
2026	Patrik Ernfors