John O’Keefe (credit: David Bishop, UCL)
The 2014 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience was today awarded to Professor John O'Keefe, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL and affiliated faculty member in the UCL Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Professor O'Keefe will share the award with Professor Brenda Milner of McGill University, Canada and Professor Marcus E. Raichle of Washington University in St.Louis, USA. The recipients have all played major roles in advancing understanding of memory and in the development of techniques to measure the brain. Professor O'Keefe was awarded the prize "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition." The Kavli Prize is awarded by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and consists of a cash award of 1 million US dollars in each field, split evenly between the winners, and each laureate receives a gold medal and a scroll. Professor John O'Keefe said: "It's a great thrill and an immense honour to be given this prestigious award for our work on the spatial memory and navigational functions of the hippocampus. I'm particularly pleased to share it with Professors Raichle and Milner, both pioneers in their field. Professor Milner was one of my teachers who originally inspired me to study the memory functions of the hippocampus.
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