The Brain Prize

The world's largest brain research prize is Danish and is awarded and founded by the Lundbeck Foundation. Each year, we award 10 million DKK (approx. 1,3 million€) to one or more brain researchers who have had a ground-breaking impact on brain research.

The Brain Prize Winners 2011-2023

The Brain Prize Winners 2023

The Brain Prize winners of 2023, Michael Greenberg, Christine Holt, and Erin Schuman have made ground-breaking discoveries by showing how the synthesis of new proteins is triggered in different parts of the neuron, thereby guiding brain development and plasticity in ways that impact our behaviour for a lifetime.

About the Brain Prize Winners | 2023

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The Brain Prize 2023

Pioneering work on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity awarded with the world’s top prize in neuroscience

They have revealed crucial molecular mechanisms that sustain the development and function of the healthy brain
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The Brain Prize 2022

HRH Crown Prince Frederik presents the world’s largest brain research prize in Copenhagen

Three top international researchers – Ole Kiehn from Denmark, Silvia Arber from Switzerland and New Zealand’s Martyn Goulding – have received the prestigious Danish brain research award, The Brain Prize.
The Brain Prize 2022

Pioneering work on how the nervous system controls movement awarded world’s top brain research prize

An international group of three neuroscientists from Switzerland, Denmark and USA/New Zealand have revealed the nervous system’s inner workings by mapping the neuronal cell types and circuits in the brain and spinal cord that control movement.