Cornelia Bargmann, the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and the director of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at Rockefeller University in New York City, has been selected to receive the 2016 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience from the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The award recognizes her work on the genetic and neural mechanisms that control behavior.
The prize, which is endowed through a gift from Merck Research Laboratories to the McGovern Institute, consists of a $125,000 award, plus an inscribed gift. Dr. Bargmann will be honored and give a lecture at MIT on March 30.
Professor Bargmann joined the faculty at Rockefeller University in 2004. Previously, she taught at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Bargmann is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where she majored in biochemistry. She earned a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.