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The Brain Prize

  • ️Thu May 30 2024

The Brain Prize

The world's largest brain research prize is Danish and is awarded 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 2024

Larry Abbott, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky have made pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and have made seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s structure, dynamics and the emergence of cognition and behaviour.

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The Brain Prize 2024: Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience

Learn about the Brain Prize from 2011 and today

  • Documentary: Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine

    March 11 2025, 7-9:30 PM

    Grand Theatre, Mikkel Bryggers gade 8, 1460 Copenhagen

    Join The Brain Prize for the premiere of “Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine” – a documentary that tells the remarkable story of how research into the brain paved the way to one of the most revolutionary technological advances in history, AI.

  • 30 May 2024

    HM The King of Denmark becomes patron of The Brain Prize

    The Lundbeck Foundation, which is behind the world's largest prize in neuroscience, The Brain Prize, is pleased to have received today the information that His Majesty The King of Denmark will become patron of the prize.

  • 1 September 2023

    A highly effective biological brake

    A team of scientists at the University of Copenhagen has turned movement ‘off‘ and ‘on’ in genetically modified laboratory mice by controlling specific brain cells.

The Team

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