Former Awardees

Year	Name	Nationality	Area of contribution	Press
2023	Sheena Josselyn	Toronto, Canada	Learning and memory	Press
2022	Adolfo Bronstein	London, UK	Dizziness	Press
2021	Magdalena Götz	Munich, Germany	Neural repair mechanisms	Press
2020	Eckart Altenmüller	Rottweil, Germany	Music-induced brain plasticity	Press
2019	Silvia Arber	Switzerland	Motor circuit function	Press
2018	Alastair Compston	Cambridge, UK	Multiple sclerosis	Press
2017	Gabor Michael Halmagyi	Sydney, Australia	Testing vestibular function	Press
2016	Christian Lüscher	Switzerland	Addiction and dopamine system	Press
2015	Christopher Kennard	UK	Cognitive neuroscience	Press
2014	Massimo Scanziani	Rome, Italy	Cortical circuits of vision	Press
2013	David Zee	Baltimore, USA	Eye movement	Press
2012	John Bargh	New Haven, USA	Unconscious behavior	Press
2011	Roger Lemon	London, UK	Hand motor control	Press
2010	Karl Deisseroth	Stanford, USA	Optogenetics
2009	Andreas Lüthi	Basel, Switzerland	Fear circuits	Press
2008	Howard L. Weiner	Boston, USA	Multiple sclerosis	Press
2007	Martin Schwab	Zurich, Switzerland	Spinal regeneration	Press
2006	May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser	Trondheim, Norway	Spatial memory
2005	Hartmut Wekerle	Munich, Germany	Multiple sclerosis	Press
2004	Rodolfo Llinas	New York, USA	Thalamic function
2003	Wolf Singer	Frankfurt, Germany	Cortical networks	Press
2002	Alim-Louis Benabid	Grenoble, France	Parkinson disease
2001	Charles Weissmann	London, UK	Prion diseases	Press
2000	Bernard Cohen	New York, USA	Vestibular system
1999	Thomas Brandt	Munich, Germany	Vertigo and dizziness
1998	Laurence R. Young	MIT, USA	Human space exploration
1997	Semir Zeki	London, UK	Art and vision
1996	Theodor Landis	Geneva, Switzerland	Brain lateralization
1995	Anders Björklund	Lund, Sweden	Brain transplants
1994	Pat Wall	London, UK	Pain research
1993	James Randi	USA	Fraud in science