US, German Neuroscientists Awarded Brain Prize 2025

Professor Michelle Monje of the United States and Professor Frank Winkler of Germany have been awarded the Brain Prize 2025 at a ceremony in Copenhagen Wednesday

[Thomas Tolstrup]

Copenhagen (Denmark): Professor Michelle Monje of the United States and Professor Frank Winkler of Germany have been awarded the Brain Prize 2025 at a ceremony in Copenhagen Wednesday.

The Brain Prize is the world's largest award for outstanding contributions to neuroscience worth EUR 1.3 million.

The two neuroscientists were conferred the Brain Prize of the year by King Frederik of Denmark for their discoveries that open an entirely new way of thinking about and understanding brain cancers, and the potential strategies to treat them.

"Cancer Neuroscience"

Professors Monje and Winkler have made transformative discoveries by showing that the everyday activity that takes place in the brain drives the development of cancers within it.

Recent studies further show that the influence of the nervous system is not only limited to tumours in the brain, but also tumours throughout the body.

These remarkable findings have laid the foundation for an entirely new field of research called 'Cancer Neuroscience' that represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of these cancers, and which offers vital new opportunities for treatment.

"New treatments are critical since cancers that arise in the brain, particularly the ones known as gliomas, are extraordinarily difficult to treat, and are the leading cause of brain tumour-related deaths in both children and adults", Lundbeck Foundation said.

Lundbeck Foundation confers the Brain Prize every year since 2011.

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