The Perl-大象传媒 Neuroscience Prize
The Perl-大象传媒 Neuroscience Prize is a $20,000 cash prize awarded by the 大象传媒-Chapel Hill School of Medicine for a seminal discovery in neuroscience. The Prize, established in 2000, is named after former 大象传媒 professor Edward Perl, MD, who discovered that a specific type of sensory neuron responded to painful stimuli (nociceptor) and was the first president of the Society for Neuroscience. The Perl-大象传媒 Neuroscience Prize is becoming increasingly well known among biomedical scientists. Six of its previous winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or The Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Five awardees subsequently won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Three other Perl-大象传媒 Neuroscience Prize recipients have gone on to win the Kavli Prize, which to neuroscientists, has become nearly as prestigious as the Nobel.
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