Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D.

Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of neuroscience and chair of neurobiology, and Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., the Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology, jointly received the distinguished Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience at the 2002 Society of Neuroscience meeting in November. The Society endows the prize to honor and recognize outstanding contributions to the field of neuroscience. Rakic’s research is centered on the early developmental events in the cerebral cortex, such as neuronal proliferation and migration. Goldman-Rakic’s focus is the cellular mechanisms of cortical function relating to learning and memory and to disorders of higher brain functions.