The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.

Recipients

• 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 (University of Cambridge)^[3]
• 2019 Joseph S. Takahashi
• 2020 Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Corey Goodman and Marc Tessier-Lavigne^[4]
• 2021 Christine Petit and Christopher A. Walsh
• 2022 Larry Abbott, Emery Neal Brown, Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky^[5]
• 2023 Huda Akil^[6]