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Cornelia Bargmann

American neurobiologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1961 · age 65

Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann is an American neurobiologist. She is known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior using C. elegans, particularly the mechanisms of olfaction in the worm.

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2015Benjamin Franklin MedalAward2013Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesAward2012Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize LectureAwardKavli Prize in NeuroscienceAward2010Perl-UNC PrizeAward2009Richard Lounsbery AwardAward2006Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1997W. Alden Spencer AwardAward1961Born1 January 1961

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Benjamin Franklin Medal2015
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences2013
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience2012
Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture2012
Perl-UNC Prize2010
Richard Lounsbery Award2009
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2006
W. Alden Spencer Award1997
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016. She was the Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative from 2016 to 2022. In 2012 she was awarded the $1 million Kavli Prize, and in 2013 the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

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Born 1961 · age 65