The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced that the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience 2008 has been awarded to:

Sten Grillner
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Thomas Jessell
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, USA

and

Pasko Rakic
Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

“for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits”

Pasko Rakic was a Lecturer in various ICTP Colleges in Neurophysics from 1986 until 2001.