2026 Brain Prize winner David Ginty spent his career mapping the nerve cells sensing pain. Then he got shingles — and used his own body to identify the neurons responsible.
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@brainprize.org2026 Brain Prize winner David Ginty spent his career mapping the nerve cells sensing pain. Then he got shingles — and used his own body to identify the neurons responsible.
@brainprize.orgJust 6 days to go until 2025 Brain Prize winner Frank Winkler presents his lecture, ‘Malignant Networks in the Brain,’ at the 39th ECNP Congress in Munich.
For more information:
https://www.ecnp.eu/congress2026/
@brainprize.org2026 Brain Prize winner Patrik Ernfors has spent his career studying pain. Then lifting a heavy sofa left him with years of chronic pain — and a deeper appreciation of why finding treatments matters.
@brainprize.orgWhat makes a great scientist? For Brain Prize winners David Ginty and Patrik Ernfors, it starts with mentorship — trusting the next generation to find their own path, and even surpass them.
@brainprize.orgDo you know what the brain does while we sleep?
Find out by visiting in The Brain Prize collection at Frontiers for Young Minds.
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2026.1685219
@brainprize.orgBrain Prize winner 2025 Frank Winkler will be delivering The Brain Prize lecture: Malignant Networks in the Brain, at the 39th ECNP Congress, Munich Germany.
For more information:
https://www.ecnp.eu/congress2026/
@brainprize.orgDid you know that you can control the brain with light?
Find out how light is used to control brain activity in the Frontiers for Young Minds Brain Prize collection.
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2026.1784155
@brainprize.orgBrain Prize 2022 winner Ole Kiehn delivered The Brain Prize Lecture at the KSBNS Annual Meeting in Daejeon, presenting his work on brainstem circuits for movement in brain-wide motor networks and their role in movement disorders.
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@brainprize.orgIn four days at the KSBNS Annual Meeting in Daejeon, Korea, 2022 Brain Prize winner Ole Kiehn will deliver The Brain Prize Lecture.
For more information:
https://ksbns2026.org