UCL professors win the 2018 Brain Prize

The 2018 Brain Prize, the world's most valuable prize for brain research at €1m, has been awarded to Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) and Professor Bart De Strooper (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL) for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease. It is unprecedented that academics from the same institution have been awarded the coveted prize two years in a row. Last year saw Professor Peter Dayan (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) and Professor Ray Dolan (UCL Institute of Neurology) receive the accolade for their work on how the brain recognises and processes reward. "We're very proud that John and Bart have won such a prestigious award. Having UCL winners in two consecutive years is a testament to the impact of our neuroscience research, both within the Faculty of Brain Sciences and across the university," said Professor Alan Thompson, Dean of UCL Brain Sciences. The Brain Prize, awarded annually by the Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark, recognises one or more international scientists who have distinguished themselves by an outstanding contribution to neuroscience. Professors Hardy and De Strooper won the 2018 Brain Prize alongside Professor Michel Goedert (Medical Research Council & University of Cambridge) and Professor Christian Haass (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany).