2004 Seymour Benzer 2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi 2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London 2009 Jeffrey C. Hall, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Maine; Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University; and Michael Young, professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University 2010 Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research 2011 Huda Zoghbi 2012 Lily Jan and Yuh Nung Jan, University of California, San Francisco 2013 Eve Marder 2014 Thomas Jessell 2015 Carla Shatz and Michael Greenberg 2016 Mu-ming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences and UC Berkeley[1] 2017 Joshua R. Sanes, Center for Brain Neuroscience, Harvard University[2] 2018 Ann Graybiel (McGovern Institute for Brain Research/MIT), Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute/NIH) and Wolfram Schultz [de] (University of Cambridge)[3] 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer [de], Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne[4] 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh