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Zoghbi, MD<sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">#,^ <\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nBaylor College of Medicine<br \/>\n<i>Discovery of the Genetic Basis of Rett Syndrome<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>2008<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Greenberg, PhD<br \/>\nHarvard Medical School<br \/>\n<i>Discovery of Signaling Pathways Underlying Activity-Regulated Gene\u00a0Transcription in Neurons<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<p>Thomas Jessell, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span><br \/>\nColumbia University Medical Center<br \/>\n<i>Defining Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate the Development of Neural Circuits<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>2010<\/h2>\n<p>Catherine Dulac, PhD<sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">#<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nCori Bargmann, PhD<sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^,#<\/span><\/sup><br \/>\n<i>Discover of Chemosensory Circuits that Regulate Social Behaviors<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>2011<\/h2>\n<p>Karl Deisseroth, PhD<sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"># <\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nEdward Boyden, PhD<sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"># <\/span><\/sup><br \/>\nFeng Zhang, PhD<br \/>\n<i>Development and Application of Optogenetics for Studying Neural Circuit Functions<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>2012<\/h2>\n<p>Edvard Moser, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">*<\/span><br \/>\nMay-Britt Moser, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">*<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Discovery of key principles governing the internal representation of space and episodic memory<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2013<\/h2>\n<p>Marcus Raichle, MD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Discoveries related to the default mode network of brain function<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2014<\/h2>\n<p>David W Tank, PhD<br \/>\n<em>Discovery of fundamental mechanisms of neural computation<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2015<\/h2>\n<p>Christopher A Walsh, MD, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Discovery of genes and mechanisms regulating human cortical development<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2016<\/h2>\n<p>David J. Anderson, PhD<br \/>\n<em><i>Discovery of neural circuit mechanisms controlling emotional behaviors<\/i><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2017<\/h2>\n<p>Winrich Freiwald, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span><br \/>\nDoris Y. Tsao, PhD<span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Discovery of brain mechanisms of face recognition<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2018<\/h2>\n<p>S. Lawrence Zipursky, PhD<br \/>\nJoshua R. Sanes, PhD<br \/>\n<em>Discovery of cell-surface proteins that control circuit assembly in the visual system<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2019<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\"> <span id=\"parent-fieldname-imageCaption2-79452408f6224e709cf2184bce3c29a4\" class=\"\"> Lily Jan, PhD<br \/>\nYuh-Nung Jan, PhD <\/span> <\/span><br \/>\n<em>Discovery and functional characterization of potassium channels<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc<br \/>\n<em>Discovery of the glymphatic system<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p>Leslie Vosshall, PhD<br \/>\n<em>Discovery of receptors involved in mosquito host-seeking behavior<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p>David Ginty, PhD<br \/>\n<em>Pioneering research on the development and function of the neural circuits underlying touch<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2025<\/h2>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Botond Roska, MD, PhD<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Developed approaches to decode retinal circuitry and restore vision<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">*<\/span>\u00a0subsequently received Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">^<\/span>\u00a0subsequently received Kavli Prize in neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"># <\/span><\/sup>subsequently received Breakthrough Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000 David Jay Julius, PhD#,^,* University of California, San Francisco Cloning the Capsaicin Receptor 2001 Roderick MacKinnon, MD* The Rockefeller University Solving the Crystal Structure of the Potassium Channel 2002 Linda Buck, PhD* Richard Axel, MD* Discovery of the Family of Olfactory Receptor Proteins 2003 Yves Barde, MD Biozentrum, University of Basel Discovery of Brain-Derived, &hellip; 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