Cori Bargmann
Cori Bargmann is a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies the biology of the brain, asking how genes, the environment, and experience interact to give rise to flexible behaviors. She recently co-chaired the NIH planning committee for the President’s BRAIN Initiative, a neuroscience program to advance studies of the brain in health and disease. Among other honors, she is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and received the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and the 2013 Breakthrough Award in Life Sciences.