The Brain Prize Lectures 2025
The recipients of The Brain Prize 2025 will present a research lecture on their pioneering contributions to neuroscience. The lectures will take place at the University of Copenhagen.
Professor Michelle Monje and Professor Frank Winkler are awarded The Brain Prize 2025 for pioneering the field of Cancer Neuroscience.
Gliomas are extraordinarily difficult to treat and are the leading cause of brain tumour-related deaths in both children and adults. Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler have made transformative discoveries by showing that neural activity in the brain can promote cancer initiation, growth, spread and treatment resistance.
Thus, the everyday activity that takes place in the brain promotes the development of cancers within it. These remarkable 铿乶dings have laid the foundation for an entirely new 铿乪ld of research called 鈥楥ancer Neuroscience鈥 that represents a paradigm shift in the understanding of these cancers, and which offers vital new opportunities for treatment.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Milan Gambhir Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology,
Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences,
Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Investigator.
USA
Professor for Neuro-Oncology, Heidelberg University
Faculty of Medicine and Managing Senior Physician
in the Department of Neurology.
Germany
| 16.00 | Welcome by Martin Meyer, Director of The Brain Prize |
| 16.05 | Chair of The Brain Prize selection committee Professor Andreas Meyer Lindenberg introduces Professor Michelle Monje |
| 16.10 | Professor Michelle Monje: 鈥淭he neuroscience of brain cancer鈥 |
| 16.40 | Professor Andreas Meyer Lindenberg introduces Professor Frank Winkler |
| 16.45 | Professor Frank Winkler: 鈥淣eural influences on adult brain tumors: from bench to bedside鈥 |
| 17.45 | Reception |
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Location: University of Copenhagen Panum, Blegdamsvej 3B - Niels K. Jerne auditorium