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2009 Award and Prize Recipients

Inaugural Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring: Victoria Luine, PhD

Career Development Award: Christopher Pittenger, MD, PhD, and Raphael Pinaud, PhD

Donald B. Lindsley Prize: Kay M. Tye, PhD, and Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD

Jacob P. Waletzky Award: Geoffrey Schoenbaum, MD, PhD

Julius Axelrod Prize: Michael Greenberg, PhD

Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award: Carla Shatz, PhD

Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor: Ann Kelley, PhD

Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience: Mingshan Xue, PhD, and Eva Pastalkova, PhD

Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience: Lily Jan, PhD, and Yuh Nung Jan, PhD

Research Awards for Innovation in Neuroscience (RAIN): Yang Dan, PhD, Tim Holy, PhD, and Ryohei Yasuda, PhD

Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Horace Barlow, ScD

Young Investigator Award: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD

Science Educator Award: Janet M. Dubinsky, PhD

Next Generation Award:

  • Pre-/Post-Doctoral: Michael Black, PhD and Kimberly Maguschak (Atlanta Chapter)
  • Junior Faculty: Cynthia Smeraski, PhD (Front Range Neuroscience Group Chapter)

Award for Education in Neuroscience: Eric Kandel, MD, James Schwartz, MD, PhD, and Thomas Jessell, PhD

Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize: Jeffrey Hall, PhD, Michael Roshbash, PhD, and Michael Young, PhD