The W. Alden Spencer Award is awarded to an investigator in recognition of outstanding research contributions by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Department of Neuroscience, and The Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University. It is named after W. Alden Spencer, a professor of Physiology and Neurology at Columbia University. The award winner also gives a lecture. In 2018, it took place at on October 9, 2018. Since 2018, the award transitioned to a biennial schedule, alternating with the Eric R. Kandel Lecture, providing a platform for honoring developing talent in the field.
Recipients
• 1978
Emilio Bizzi • 1979
Charles F. Stevens • 1980
John Heuser,
Thomas Reese • 1981
Gerald Fischbach • 1982
Patricia Goldman-Rakic • 1983
Erwin Neher,
Bert Sakmann • 1984
Paul H. Patterson • 1985
A.J. Hudspeth • 1986
H. Robert Horvitz,
John Sulston • 1987
Robert H. Wurtz • 1988
Lily Yeh Jan,
Yuh Nung Jan • 1989
Holger Wigstrom,
Bengt Gustafsson,
Roger Nicoll • 1990
Michael P. Stryker • 1991
Roger Y. Tsien • 1992
Corey S. Goodman • 1993
Richard H. Scheller,
Thomas C. Südhof • 1994
Richard A. Andersen,
William T. Newsome III • 1995
Richard W. Aldrich,
Christopher Miller • 1996
Carla Shatz • 1997
Cornelia Bargmann • 1998
Roderick MacKinnon • 1999
David Anderson • 2000
Joshua Sanes • 2001
Joseph Takahashi • 2002
Eric Knudsen,
Charles Gilbert • 2003
Huda Zoghbi • 2004
Thomas R. Insel,
Emmanuel Mignot • 2005
Edvard Moser,
May-Britt Moser • 2006
Winfried Denk,
David W. Tank • 2007
David Julius,
Charles G. Zuker • 2008
Nikos K. Logothetis • 2009
Michael N. Shadlen • 2010
S. Lawrence Zipursky,
Marc Tessier-Lavigne • 2011
Karl Deisseroth • 2012
Allison J. Doupe,
Michael S. Brainard • 2013
Eric Gouaux • 2015
Atsushi Miyawaki,
Loren L. Looger • 2016
Winrich Freiwald,
Doris Y. Tsao • 2017
Ardem Patapoutian,
David Ginty • 2018
Silvia Arber and
Botond Roska • 2022
Leslie Vosshall • 2024
Vivek Jayaraman,
Gaby Maimon == See also ==