Clifford Woolf, Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the FM Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

HBI co-director David Ginty, together with Patrik Ernfors of the Karolinska Institute, was presented the 2026 Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation last week. A short film released at the prize ceremony provides a portrait of both scientists and their perspectives on the science of touch and pain.

Constance Cepko, Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, received 2026 Laureate Award from the Future Vision Foundation.

Neuroscience concentrator Kathryn Nairn awarded the John Dowling Prize for Neuroscience Senior Thesis.

Jeff Lichtman, the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Harvard College Professor by The Faculty of Arts and Sciences.