The W. Alden Spencer Award is awarded to an investigator in recognition of outstanding research contributions by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Department of Neuroscience, and The Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University. It is named after W. Alden Spencer, a professor of Physiology and Neurology at Columbia University. The award winner also gives a lecture. In 2018, it took place at on October 9, 2018. Since 2018, the award transitioned to a biennial schedule, alternating with the Eric R. Kandel Lecture, providing a platform for honoring developing talent in the field.
Recipients
1978 Emilio Bizzi 1979 Charles F. Stevens 1980 John Heuser, Thomas Reese 1981 Gerald Fischbach 1982 Patricia Goldman-Rakic 1983 Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann 1984 Paul H. Patterson 1985 A.J. Hudspeth 1986 H. Robert Horvitz, John Sulston 1987 Robert H. Wurtz 1988 Lily Yeh Jan, Yuh Nung Jan 1989 Holger Wigstrom, Bengt Gustafsson, Roger Nicoll 1990 Michael P. Stryker 1991 Roger Y. Tsien 1992 Corey S. Goodman 1993 Richard H. Scheller, Thomas C. Südhof 1994 Richard A. Andersen, William T. Newsome III 1995 Richard W. Aldrich, Christopher Miller 1996 Carla Shatz 1997 Cornelia Bargmann 1998 Roderick MacKinnon 1999 David Anderson 2000 Joshua Sanes 2001 Joseph Takahashi 2002 Eric Knudsen, Charles Gilbert 2003 Huda Zoghbi 2004 Thomas R. Insel, Emmanuel Mignot 2005 Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser 2006 Winfried Denk, David W. Tank 2007 David Julius, Charles G. Zuker 2008 Nikos K. Logothetis 2009 Michael N. Shadlen 2010 S. Lawrence Zipursky, Marc Tessier-Lavigne 2011 Karl Deisseroth 2012 Allison J. Doupe, Michael S. Brainard 2013 Eric Gouaux 2015 Atsushi Miyawaki, Loren L. Looger 2016 Winrich Freiwald, Doris Y. Tsao 2017 Ardem Patapoutian, David Ginty 2018 Silvia Arber and Botond Roska 2022 Leslie Vosshall
2024 Vivek Jayaraman, Gaby Maimon
See also The Kavli Prize The Brain Prize Gruber Prize in Neuroscience Karl Spencer Lashley Award The Mind & Brain Prize Perl-UNC Prize Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience List of neuroscience awards
References
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