The 2025 Gruber Neuroscience Prize Awarded to Edward Chang
WASHINGTON — Edward F. Chang, MD, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will be awarded the 2025 Gruber neuroscience Prize. The award celebrates his work toward understanding how the brain encodes the sounds and movements of spoken language. Chang’s research has led to the development of the first successful speech neuroprosthesis to restore communication in individuals with paralysis.
Chang has been a member of SfN for 12 years.
The Gruber Neuroscience Prize, which includes a $500,000 award, will be presented to Chang on November 16 at Neuroscience 2025 in San Diego.
Chang’s research stands out for both its technical sophistication and its profound clinical impact. It combines high-precision neurosurgery with advanced neuroscience and human-based brain mapping to uncover functions that are uniquely human. His discoveries have opened an entirely new field of neuroscience focused on decoding and restoring speech from brain activity.
The Gruber Neuroscience Prize honors scientists for major discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system. SfN partners with the Gruber Foundation on the Prize and nominates the members of the Selection Advisory Board that chooses the Prize recipients.
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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is an organization of nearly 30,000 basic scientists and clinicians who study the brain and the nervous system.
