Recipients
of the International Prize
FENS 1998, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Tamas Freund (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.
FENS 2000 Brighton, UK
Dr. Robert C. Malenka (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.
FENS 2002 Paris, France
Dr. Daniele Piomelli (Irvine, CA, USA) for his fundamental discoveries
concerning the functional roles and regulation of endogenous cannabinoids in
the brain and peripheral tissues.
FENS 2004 Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Cornelia I. Bargmann (San Francisco, CA, USA) for her fundamental
discoveries concerning genes, behavior, and the sense of smell in the nematode
C. elegans.
FENS 2006 Vienna, Austria
Dr. Patrik Ernfors (Stockholm, Sweden) for his outstanding work on the expression
and function of neurotrophic factors and neuropeptide and their receptors
exploiting transgenic techniques.
FENS 2008 Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Massimo Scanziani (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.
FENS 2010 Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Dr. Jonas Frisén (Stockholm, Sweden) for his pioneering contributions to our
understanding of neurogenesis in the central nervous system.
FENS 2012 Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Eleanor Maguire (London, UK) for her innovative contributions to
understanding human memory.