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Warmest congratulations to:

Professor Cathy Price of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê on the award, by the jury of the IPSEN Foundation, of the Neuropsychology Prize for 2012 (20,000 €) for her outstanding contribution to the domain of reading and writing. The citation records that her research has had a highly significant impact on the development of the field. Previous winners include Nobel prize-winner (and member of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre International Governing Body) Eric Kandel (1992), and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê colleagues (Dame) Uta Frith (2003) and Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (2006).Ìý

The leading Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê scientists who have won the following highly prestigious and competitive Wellcome Trust senior investigator awards:Ìý

• Professor Ray Dolan, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê: The neurobiology of motivation in health and disease
• Professor Annette Dolphin, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Pharmacology,: Physiological and pathological regulation of calcium-channel and other ion-channel functions by alpha2delta-subunits and their interacting proteins
• Professor Gabriel Waksman, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (jointly with Birkbeck College): An integrated study of a bacterial secretion nanomachine. Joint senior investigator awards
• Professor Elizabeth Fisher Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Neurodegenerative Disease and Dr Victor Tybulewicz, Department of Immune Cell Biology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research: Understanding Down Syndrome phenotypes through innovative mouse genetics
• Dr James Briscoe, Division of Developmental Biology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research: Regulatory dynamics of vertebrate neural tube development. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê is now the most successful university in these Wellcome competitive awards.

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