Award Winners

Professor D. James Surmeier, Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

Award winning publication: Disruption of mitochondrial complex I induces progressive parkinsonism. NATURE 599: 650-656 (2021).

Prof. Michel Goedert and Dr. Sjors H. W. Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.

Award winning publication: Structures of a-synuclein filaments from human brains with Lewy pathology. NATURE 610, 791-795 (2022).

Professor Paul Krack, M.D., PhD, Neurology Department, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Award winning publication:
"Behavioural outcomes of subthalamic stimulation and medical therapy versus medical therapy alone for Parkinson's disease with early motor complications(EARLYSTIM trial): secondary analysis of an open-label randomized trial (2018)". Lancet Neurology 2018.

Professor Heiko Braak, M.D., Senior Professor, Department of Neurology/Clinical Neuroanatomy Section, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Award winning publication:
"Potential pathways of abnormal tau and α-synuclein dissemination in sporadic Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases". Cold Spring Harb Perspectives in Biology, 2015.

Professor Lorenz Studer, Professor Developmental Neurobiology, Cornell Medical School, New York and Director, SKI Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, USA

Award winning publication:
"Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson's disease." Nature 2011.

Professor John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, University College, Queen Square, London
and
Professor Andrew B. Singleton, Chief of the Molecular Genetics Section and Acting Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Award winning publication:
"Genome-wide genotyping in Parkinson's disease and neurologically normal controls: first stage analysis and public release of data." Lancet Neurol 2006; 5: 911-16.

Professor Stanley Fahn, Neurological Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA.

Award winning publication:
Parkinson Study Group. "Levodopa and the progression of Parkinson's disease".  N Engl J Med. 2004 Dec 9; 351(24): 2498 - 2508.

Professor Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Department of Neurology,  Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, USA.

Award winning publication:
“Mutations in LRRK2 cause autosomal-dominant parkinsonism with pleomorphic pathology." Neuron 2004; 444: 601-607.

Professor José A. Obeso, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Espania

Award winning publication:
"The subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's Disease: Somatotopic organization and physiologial characteristics". Brain 2001; 124: 1777-1790.

Professor Anthony H.V. Schapira, University College London, London, UK

Award winning publication:
"Mitochondrial DNA Transmission of the Mitochondrial Defect in Parkinson's Disease". Ann Neurology 1998; 44:177-186.

Professor Pierre Pollak, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France

Award winning publication:
“Electrical Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Advanced Parkinson's Disease".
New Engl J Med 1998; 339: 1105-1111.