March 4, 2021

Brain Prize 2021 – announcement of winners

Four neuroscientists working at universities in UK, Europe and USA will be awarded the world’s most valuable prize for brain research. The Brain Prize is awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark and is worth more than £1m. Awarded annually, it recognises one or more scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to neuroscience.

Journalists joined the SMC press briefing to meet this year’s new winners, who discussed the importance of their research and gave their reaction to the prize.

The announcement naming the winners was made public at 15.15 UK time on Thursday 4 March 2021.

Speakers included:

(USA) Prof Michael Moskowitz, Professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital

(Sweden) Prof Lars Edvinsson, Professor of internal medicine at Lund University, Sweden

(UK/USA) Prof Peter Goadsby, Director of the NIHR-Wellcome Trust King’s clinical research facility at King’s College London, UK, and Professor of neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

(Denmark) Prof Jes Olesen, Clinical Professor in the department of clinical neurology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark