Congratulations to King-Wai Yau and Jeremy Nathans, winners of the 2008 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award,

referred to as the Nobel Prize for Vision.

Congratulations again to Jeremy Nathans, professor of molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience and ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been awarded the sixth annual Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience by the McGovern Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Scolnick Prize is awarded each year to recognize an individual who has made outstanding advances in the field of neuroscience.

Nathans received $50,000 and gave a public lecture at MIT on April 27.

Nathans identified the genes that code for the three kinds of light-sensing pigment molecules that are critical for color vision. He also has shown that alterations in these pigment genes are responsible for all of the common types of variation in color vision in humans.

Also, Congratulations to our Neuroscience Graduate Students for winning the following awards this year. 

Sasrutha Wickramasinghe - Martin & Carol Macht Research Award

Gerald Sun- William and Mary Drescher Award

Tanya Marton - Turock Family Foundation Award

Dengke Ma - Harold M. Weintraub Award

 

Full list of graduate student awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2005 Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine