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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Sara Borgomaneri
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Sirwan Darweesh
Dr. Terry Lichtor
Rush. University Medical Center
Prof. Silvio Ionta
UNIL
Winner
Alessandra Borsini
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
Daniele Bertoglio
Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Paul E. Engelhardt
Dr. Fengyu Zhang
Global Clinical and Translational Research Institute
Dr. Ashu Johri
Prof. Gaoxiang Ouyang
Beijing Normal University
Dr. Augusto Fusco
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS
Winner
Dibyadeep Datta
Yale University
Dr. Giacomo Valle
ETH Zurich
Morgan H James
Rutgers University
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Alex Green
Dr. James Robert Brasic
Department of Psychiatry
Prof. Dr. Nada Andelic
Oslo University Hospital / University of Oslo
Dr. Claude Alain
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre
Winner
Rickie Patani
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The Francis Crick Institute
Francesco Bartoli
University of Milano Bicocca
Olivia Gosseries
Coma Science Group, University of Liege
Award Committee
Dr. Stephen Meriney
Chairman
University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Sapienza University of Rome
Dr. Luis Lujan
Mayo Clinic
Prof. Heather Bortfeld
University of California, Merced
Dr. Andrew Clarkson
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Prof. Sergey Kasparov
University of Bristol
Dr. Evanthia Bernitsas
Wayne State School of Medicine
Prof. Konstantin Slavin
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Mark Burke
Howard University
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