W. Alden Spencer Award

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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.^[1] In 2018, it took place at on October 9, 2018.^[2]

Recipients[]

• 1978 Emilio Bizzi
• 1979 Charles F. Stevens
• 1980 John Heuser,
• 1981 Gerald Fischbach
• 1982 Patricia Goldman-Rakic
• 1983 Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
• 1984
• 1985 A.J. Hudspeth
• 1986 H. Robert Horvitz, John Sulston
• 1987 Robert H. Wurtz
• 1988 Lily Yeh Jan, Yuh Nung Jan
• 1989 , , Roger Nicoll
• 1990 Michael P. Stryker
• 1991 Roger Y. Tsien
• 1992
• 1993 Richard H. Scheller, Thomas C. Südhof
• 1994 Richard A. Andersen, William T. Newsome III
• 1995 Richard W. Aldrich,
• 1996 Carla Shatz
• 1997 Cornelia Bargmann
• 1998 Roderick MacKinnon
• 1999 David Anderson
• 2000 Joshua Sanes
• 2001 Joseph Takahashi
• 2002 Eric Knudsen,
• 2003 Huda Zoghbi
• 2004 Thomas R. Insel, Emmanuel Mignot
• 2005 Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser
• 2006 Winfried Denk, David W. Tank
• 2007 David Julius,
• 2008 Nikos K. Logothetis
• 2009 Michael N. Shadlen
• 2010 S. Lawrence Zipursky, Marc Tessier-Lavigne
• 2011 Karl Deisseroth
• 2012 Allison J. Doupe,
• 2013 Eric Gouaux
• 2015 ,
• 2016 , Doris Y. Tsao
• 2017 Ardem Patapoutian, David Ginty
• 2018 Silvia Arber and Botond Roska

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[]

External links[]

• Website

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