June 7, 2016
UC Berkeley biologist Mu-ming Poo has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Gruber Neuroscience Prize for work showing how the brain’s circuitry changes in response to life experiences.
The prize, which comes with a $500,000 honorarium, was announced today by Yale University and the Gruber Foundation. It has been given annually since 2004 to scientists “whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture,” according to the prize website.
“I am deeply honored and pleased by the award,” Poo wrote in an email from Shanghai.
Read more from Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/06/07/mu-ming-poo-awarded-500000-gruber-neuroscience-prize/