Prize Recipients

Sergiu P. Pasca receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for developing realistic models of the human brain and unearthing fundamental insights into the biology of neuropsychiatric diseases like autism.

Michael Halassa receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for identifying circuits in the thalamus that act as tunable filters, enabling the brain to suppress sensory noise during selective attention, as well as identifying a form of autism in which this filtering process is deficient.