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The Brain Prize is the world's largest brain research prize - awarded to researchers with ground-breaking impact on neuroscience. DKK 10 million.

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The Brain Prize
@BrainPrize
May 1
Nominations for The Brain Prize, the world’s largest prize for neuroscience now open! Candidates working in any country and any field of neuroscience are eligible. Nominations close September 1st 2026. For more information visit: brainprize.org/nomination-se… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience
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Since it was first awarded in 2011, The Brain Prize has recognised 51 neuroscientists from 11 different countries for pioneering work in 16 different areas of neuroscience, from basic to clinical. brainprize.org/nomination-se… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience
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The Brain Prize 2025 winners, Frank Winkler and @michelle_monje, will deliver The Brain Prize Lecture at the FENS Forum in Barcelona. For more information: fens.org @FENSorg #BrainPrize #Neuroscience #FENS
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The 2026 Brain Prize portrait film shows how inspirational teachers and mentors sparked the scientific journeys of the 2026 Brain Prize winners David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=DDXm32mK… #BrainPrize2026 #Somatosensation
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Today, Frontiers for Young Minds launches The Brain Prize Collection in partnership with the @BrainPrize Explore the collection of 10 amazing articles about the brain and written for children here kids.frontiersin.org/collect…
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The Brain Prize recognises groundbreaking achievements in any area of neuroscience, from basic to clinical. Nominations for The Brain Prize 2027 are now open. For more information visit: brainprize.org/nomination-se… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience
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What kind of work does The Brain Prize recognise? The Brain Prize has been awarded for fundamental research on the nervous system, development of new technologies, and mechanisms and treatment of disease. Nominate here: brainprize.org/nomination-se… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience
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This film about the 2026 Brain Prize winners, David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors is a portrait of their upbringings, and their perspectives on the science of touch and pain. brainprize.org/ youtube.com/watch?v=DDXm32mK…
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Brain Prize winner 2025 Frank Winkler will be delivering The Brain Prize lecture: Neural Influences on Brain Tumor Growth and Therapy Resistance, at the 12th Congress of the EAN in Geneva, Switzerland. For more information: ean.org/congress2026 @EANeurology #BrainPrize #Neuroscience #EAN
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HM The King of Denmark presents this year’s winners of The Brain Prize, Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty with their Brain Prize medals at a ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience #LundbeckFoundation
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Brain Prize 2026 award ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. Chair of The Brain Prize selection committee, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, describes the pioneering work of this year’s winners, David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors. #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience
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Lene Skole, CEO of the Lundbeck Foundation congratulates the 2026 Brain Prize winners, Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty at an award ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. #BrainPrize2026 #LundbeckFoundation
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Brain Prize ceremony 2026. Opening speech from Søren Skou, Chairman, Lundbeck Foundation Board, welcoming the nearly 400 ceremony guests and explaining the importance of the prize to the foundation. #BrainPrize2026 #LundbeckFoundation
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Brain Prize winners 2026, Patrik Ernfors (Karolinska Institutet) and David Ginty (Harvard Medical School) delivering their prize lectures on the neuroscience of touch and pain at the University of Copenhagen. #BrainPrize2026 #Somatosensation #Neuroscience
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In just five days at the 19th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting in Montreal, 2025 Brain Prize winner Michelle Monje will deliver The Brain Prize Lecture, The Neuroscience of Brain Cancers. Full event details: can-acn.org/meeting-2026/ @michelle_monje @CAN_ACN #BrainPrize #CanadianNeuroscience
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May 8
📢 Late registration for the #BrainConference on Cancer Neuroscience is OPEN! 📍 Rungstedgaard, Denmark 🗓️ 25-28 Aug 2026 👉 Register by 12 July: buff.ly/Xp77Sd8 @BrainPrize @lundbeckfonden @naddenmark
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Every action we take depends on movement. In 2022, the world’s largest neuroscience prize, honored pioneering work on the neural circuits controlling it. Nominations for The Brain Prize 2027, now open! More information: brainprize.org/nomination-se… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience
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