Jean-Pierre Changeux awarded the prestigious Goldman-Rakic Prize by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience has been awarded this year to Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux, Emeritus Professor in Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur and the Collège de France, where he held the Chair in Cellular Communications from 1976 to 2006, and a distinguished international faculty member at the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego. He shares this award with Professor Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD, from the Center for Neural Science at New York University.

The official ceremony was held on October 26 at the International Awards Dinner, an annual event held in New York.

The Goldman-Rakic prize is awarded for outstanding achievement related to fundamental basic and cognitive science. It was created by Constance and Stephen Lieber in memory of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., a distinguished neuroscientist renowned for discoveries about the brain’s frontal lobe, after her tragic death in an automobile accident in 2003.

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Jean-Pierre Changeux is also the laureate of the 2018 Albert Einstein World Award of Science (as announced in June). He received this prestigious prize, which recognizes his outstanding contribution to science and his leadership in the field of neuroscience, at the official award ceremony on November 7 and 8 – where a short testimonial video, produced at the Institut Pasteur with the Image Department, was shown.

See Jean-Pierre Changeux's testimonial video produced for the Albert Einstein award ceremony