ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Peter Gruber Foundation has established an annual prize in neuroscience to begin this year. An international panel of experts in the field will choose the first recipient, and the Foundation will present the inaugural award -- gold medal and $200,000 -- in the fall of 2004.
The Neuroscience Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation will honor men and women from anywhere in the world who have done the most distinguished work in the field of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. The award will be presented without respect to nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, or religious creed.
Members of the independent advisory board who will review nominations and choose recipients are: Huda Akil, Ph.D, Mental Health Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Dr. Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California; Dr. Tomas G.M. Hokfelt, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Lily Yeh Jan, Ph.D, University of California, San Francisco, California; Mu-Ming Poo, Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley, California; Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, President Emeritus, Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
Peter Gruber, founder of the foundation that bears his name, said, "Neuroscience is now the largest area of biomedical research, and new breakthroughs in the field are likely to dominate the 21st century. A major Neuroscience Prize will salute outstanding achievements and encourage further developments in a discipline with infinite potential."
The Peter Gruber Foundation is dedicated to encouraging and rewarding excellence in the sciences and in human rights. Its other annual international prizes are in the fields of cosmology, genetics, justice, and women's rights. It also has established a record of charitable giving, principally in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where it is located.
For more information on the Foundation and to learn how to make a nomination, visit the website at http://www.petergruberfoundation.org/.
Contact: Mary Gregg 610-617-1624
The Peter Gruber FoundationCONTACT: Mary Gregg, The Peter Gruber Foundation, +1-610-617-1624
Web site: http://petergruberfoundation.org/
