Gyuri Buzsaki (MCD Comm) received the
Brain Prize in March 2011: The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation’s Brain Prize 2011 was jointly awarded to three Hungarian scientists, Péter Somogyi, Tamás Freund and György Buzsáki, “for their wide-ranging, technically and conceptually brilliant research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially in the hippocampus.”
Marla Feller (2002 Scholar, Tech Comm) had a paper published in
Nature on retinal direction selectivity. Wei Wei, Aaron Hamby, Kaili Zhou, Marla Feller,
Nature, January 20, 2011: Development of asymmetric inhibition underlying direction selectivity in the retina
Rob Malenka (1990 Scholar, 1997 Investigator, Memory & Cognitive Comm) has received the NARSAD Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Cognitive Neuroscience Research in 2010 (NARSAD is now known as the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation) and the Pasarow Foundation Award for Extraordinary Accomplishment in Medical Research: Neuropsychiatry. Rob was also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Carla Shatz (1982 Investigator, EFN Board, retired Scholar and Brain Comm) was elected to the Royal Society of London, England. This is one of the oldest honorary Societies in the world and Darwin and Newton were also members. She received the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience at its November meeting in Washington DC. This prize "honors an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroscience throughout his or her career."
Rachel Wilson (2007 Scholar, Tech Comm) received the 2010
Young Investigator Award from The Society for Neuroscience (SFN).
Huda Zoghbi (EFN Board, retired Brain Comm) received the 2011 Neuroscience Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for her pioneering work in unlocking genetic and molecular mysteries behind a number of devastating neurological disorders, including Rett syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, and medulloblastomas. Her contributions have also greatly advanced our scientific understanding of autism, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. Zoghbi also co-authored two publications:
Protein interactome reveals converging molecular pathways among autism disorders, Sakai Y, Shaw CA, Dawson BC, Dugas DV, Al-Mohtaseb Z, Hill DE, Zoghbi HY. Sci Transl Med. 2011 Jun 8;3(86):86ra49; and
Adult neural function requires MeCP2, McGraw CM, Samaco RC, Zoghbi HY. Science. 2011 Jul 8;333(6039):186.
