Previous recipients of the DMK International Prize

1. FENS 1998, Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Tamas Freund (from Budapest, Hungary) for "his outstanding contributions to the organization and chemical characterization of identified neuronal circuits and cell types in the brain, in particular in the hippocampus".

2. FENS 2000 Brighton, UK

Dr. Robert C. Malenka (from Boston, MA, USA) for "his fundamental contributions in the field of synaptic plasticity, in particular long term potentiation and long term depression, and the characterization of the role of silent synapses in these processes ".

3. FENS 2002 Paris, France

Dr. Daniele Piomelli (from Irvine, CA, USA) for “his fundamental discoveries concerning the functional roles and regulation of endogenous cannabinoids in the brain and peripheral tissues”

4. FENS 2004 Lisbon, Portugal

Dr. Cornelia I. Bargmann (from San Francisco, CA, USA) for “her fundamental discoveries concerning genes, behavior, and the sense of smell in the nematode C. elegans”.

5. FENS 2006 Vienna, Austria

Dr. Patrik Ernfors (from Stockholm, Sweden) for “his outstanding work on the expression and function of neurotrophic factors and neuropeptide and their receptors exploiting transgenic techniques”

6. FENS 2008 Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Massimo Scanziani (from San Diego, CA, USA) for “his seminal discoveries on how cerebral cortex perceives the environment by showing that cortical circuits operate in an activity-dependent and non-linear fashion using canonical feed-forward and feed-back inhibition circuits as feature detectors of incoming stimuli”.

7. FENS 2010 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dr. Jonas Frisén (from Stockholm, Sweden) for “his pioneering contributions to our understanding of neurogenesis in the central nervous system”

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