Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience

Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience
Awarded for Honors an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroscience throughout his or her career
Location Washington, D.C.
Presented by Society for Neuroscience
Reward(s) US$25,000
First awarded 1978
Website web.sfn.org/SfN/Awards-and-Funding/Individual-Prizes-and-Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and-Career-Awards/Ralph-W-Gerard-Prize-in-Neuroscience

The Ralph W. Gerard Award of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is an award in neuroscience awarded annually since 1978 for Lifetime Achievement. It is the highest recognition conferred by the SfN. As of 2018, the prize winner receives US$25,000.

It is named in memory of the American neurophysiologist Ralph Waldo Gerard (1900-1974), a founder and honorary president of the Society for Neuroscience and a professor at the University of Chicago , the University of Michigan and the University of California at Irvine. Gerard was known for his work on the nervous system, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia.

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