The Brain Prize

Nominations for The Brain Prize, the world’s largest prize for neuroscience now open! Candidates working in any country and any field of neuroscience are eligible. Nominations close September 1st 2026. For more information visit: brainprize.org/nomination-sel… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience

Brain Prize winner 2025 Frank Winkler will be delivering The Brain Prize lecture: Neural Influences on Brain Tumor Growth and Therapy Resistance, at the 12th Congress of the EAN in Geneva, Switzerland. For more information: ean.org/congress2026 @EANeurology #BrainPrize #Neuroscience #EAN

HM The King of Denmark presents this year’s winners of The Brain Prize, Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty with their Brain Prize medals at a ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience #LundbeckFoundation

Brain Prize 2026 award ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. Chair of The Brain Prize selection committee, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, describes the pioneering work of this year’s winners, David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors. #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience

Lene Skole, CEO of the Lundbeck Foundation congratulates the 2026 Brain Prize winners, Patrik Ernfors and David Ginty at an award ceremony in Copenhagen this evening. #BrainPrize2026 #LundbeckFoundation

Brain Prize ceremony 2026. Opening speech from Søren Skou, Chairman, Lundbeck Foundation Board, welcoming the nearly 400 ceremony guests and explaining the importance of the prize to the foundation. #BrainPrize2026 #LundbeckFoundation

Brain Prize winners 2026, Patrik Ernfors (Karolinska Institutet) and David Ginty (Harvard Medical School) delivering their prize lectures on the neuroscience of touch and pain at the University of Copenhagen. #BrainPrize2026 #Somatosensation #Neuroscience

In just five days at the 19th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting in Montreal, 2025 Brain Prize winner Michelle Monje will deliver The Brain Prize Lecture, The Neuroscience of Brain Cancers. Full event details: can-acn.org/meeting-2026/ @michelle_monje @CAN_ACN #BrainPrize #CanadianNeuroscience

📢 Late registration for the #BrainConference on Cancer Neuroscience is OPEN! 📍 Rungstedgaard, Denmark 🗓️ 25-28 Aug 2026 👉 Register by 12 July: buff.ly/Xp77Sd8 @BrainPrize @lundbeckfonden @naddenmark

Every action we take depends on movement. In 2022, the world’s largest neuroscience prize, honored pioneering work on the neural circuits controlling it. Nominations for The Brain Prize 2027, now open! More information: brainprize.org/nomination-sel… #BrainPrize #Neuroscience

We recently filmed with 2026 Brain Prize winner Professor David Ginty (USA) at Harvard Medical School. Five films exploring the winners and their work on touch and pain are coming in 2026! #BehindTheScenes #BrainPrize2026

📢 EXTENDED DEADLINE: Early registration for the #BrainConference on Neural Foundations of Communication 📍 Crete, Greece 🗓️ 5–8 October 2026 👉 Secure your spot by 5 May: buff.ly/K3ashRl @HellenicSfN @lundbeckfonden @BrainPrize

Brain Prize winner 2025 Michelle Monje will be delivering The Brain Prize lecture: The Neuroscience of Brain Cancers, at the 19th Canadian Neuroscience Meeting in Montreal, Canada. For more information: can-acn.org/meeting-2026/ @michelle_monje @CAN_ACN

"I don’t know how I was so fortunate to be born in a time and place where a non-academically oriented child can grow up to become a scientist, exploring the neurobiological basis for how we perceive the world around us", Professor David Ginty (USA) #BrainPrize2026 #Neuroscience

How do we feel the world around us? The 2026 Brain Prize Winners have made pioneering discoveries on how the somatosensory system enables us to perceive external stimuli... #SomatosensorySystem #Neuroscience

What’s the impact of the 2026 Brain Prize winners’ discoveries? According to Prof. Håkan Olausson, the winners’ work has provided vital new clues to the mechanisms of touch and pain in humans #Somatosensation #BrainPrize2026

"The Brain Prize winners 2026 have redefined how we think about somatosensation. Their work addresses very current, timely, and urgent questions that we encounter in the clinic", Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Chair of The Brain Prize selection committee #Somatosensation #BrainPrize2026

"I feel very proud being the recipient of The Brain Prize. It's the most important recognition there is in neuroscience", Professor Patrik Ernfors (Sweden) Learn more about Patrik Ernfors: brainprize.org/winners/touch-… #ScientificAchievement #BrainPrize2026