BRAIN-funded researcher, Dr. Michael Greenberg, along with two collaborators, received the Lundbeck Foundation’s 2023 Brain Prize for ground-breaking discoveries on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity.
Michael Greenberg, Ph.D., a BRAIN-funded researcher, was one of three scientists awarded The Brain Prize 2023. The Brain Prize, awarded each year by the Lundbeck Foundation, is the world’s largest neuroscience research prize. This prestigious award recognizes highly original and influential advances in brain research. Since 2011, The Brain Prize has been awarded to 44 scientists from 9 countries.
Dr. Greenberg and colleagues received this honor for their research on how the synthesis of new proteins is triggered in different parts of the neuron, guiding brain development and plasticity that can impact human behavior. At Harvard University, research in Greenberg’s lab has made considerable strides in developing this work and continues to research how the brain responds to interactions with the outside world to modulate the activity of genes that make proteins essential for brain plasticity (see BRAIN grants 1RF1MH114081 and 1RF1DA048787). Dr. Greenberg shares this 1.3 million euro prize with Dr. Christine Holt from the University of Cambridge and Dr. Erin Schuman from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research.
Their research findings have dramatically transformed brain research by providing new insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms that guide growing axons during brain development, and that enable the developing and adult brain to be shaped by experience. These fundamental results may provide vital new insight into the causes and mechanisms of major neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases.
Please read the Lundbeck Foundation press release for more details.