Pasko Rakic
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Pasko Rakic is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who currently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain.
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János SzentágothaiAlso won Karl Spencer Lashley Award
Thomas JessellAlso won Kavli Prize in NeuroscienceDavid PilbeamAlso won International Prize by Fyssen Foundation
Shigetada NakanishiAlso won Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience ResearchAbout this person
Pasko Rakic is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who currently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. He was the founder and served as Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale, and was founder and Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. He is best known for elucidating the mechanisms involved in development and evolution of the cerebral cortex. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, leads an active research laboratory, and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations.
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