Nominations

The mission of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize is to recognize and honor one or more scientists whose scientific achievements have led to the prevention, cure, or treatment of human disorders or for seminal research that holds great promise to change our ability to treat disease.

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Eligibility

  • Self nominations are not accepted.
  • Nominees must be living.
  • Multiple nominations from an institution are permitted.
  • Nominees cannot have received a Nobel Prize for the same discovery for which they are being nominated.

Criteria

  1. Up to five nominees may be co-nominated in one nomination.
  2. Nominations are submitted online. Nomination portal
  3. The online nomination form for the Prize must include the following information:
    • Contact information for the nominee(s) and nominator.
    • Description of the nominee's research as it relates to the nomination. Include the top five bibliographical references related to the nomination.
    • A suggested citation or reason for the award (maximum fifty words).
    • Brief explanation of why you are nominating this person or group over others who have made significant contributions in the same area of research.
    • If nominating an individual, comment on whether it is appropriate to share this prize. If so, please describe their contributions
    • Two letters of support.
    • CV of the nominee(s).
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I am delighted to be in such good company—and I’m not talking just about my co-laureates. Many of my scientific heroes are among the previous recipients of the Prize.
- Gero Miesenböck

Gero Miesenböck | 2019 Recipient

Gero Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and founding Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford in 2007, he held faculty appointments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Yale University. Miesenböck was the first scientist to modify neurons genetically so that their electrical activity could be controlled with light. This involved inserting DNA for light-responsive opsin proteins into the cells. He used similar genetic modifications to breed animals whose brains contained light-responsive neurons integrated into their circuitry and was the first to demonstrate that the behavior of these animals could be remote-controlled. Miesenböck has received many awards for the invention of optogenetics, including the InBev-Baillet Latour International Health Prize, the Brain Prize, the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the Massry Prize. He is a member of the Austrian and German Academies of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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