Pasko Rakic#
| Membership Number: | 3914 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University
- 1978 - present Chairman and Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
- 1972 - 1978 Associate Professor of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School
- 1969 - 1972 Assistant Professor of Neuropathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 1967 - 1969 Assistant Professor of Dev. Biology & Genetics, Biological Institute, Belgrade
- 1962 - 1966 Clinical and Research Fellow in Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 1961 - 1962 Resident in Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Belgrade
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, migration and synaptogenesis
- Brain evolution
- Neuropathology of congenital brain disorders
- Genetic and epigenetic regulation of neuronal interactions during development
- Developmental neurobiology
- Spontaneous and induced mutations in mice
Honours and Awards
- Memberships
- 1985 Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- 1994 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1996 President Society for Neuroscience
- 1999 Member, Institute of Medicine (USA)
- 1990 Foreign Member, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1985 Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2008 Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Awards:
- 1985 - Grass Foundation Award and Lecture (SFN)
- 1986 - Francois I Medal, College de France
- 1992 - Fyssen International Science Prize
- 2000 - Marta Philipson Award, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2002 - Bristol-Myers Squibb Neuroscience Award
- 2002 - Gerard Prize, SFN
- 2008 - Kavli Neuroscience Prize
- 2010 - Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award shared with Paul Allen
- 2013 - Max Cowan Award
- 2014 - Child Mind Institute Award
- Honorary Degrees:
- 1990 - Doctor Honoris Causa, Albert Sent-Georgyi University, Szeged (Hungary)
- 1997 - Doctor Honoris Causa Universitatis Studiorum Zagrebiensis
- 2011 - Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires
