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The Gruber Foundation honors individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women's Rights, whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

2025 Gruber Prizes Announced

2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2025 Cosmology Prize to Ryan Cooke and Max Pettini for bringing the light element abundances and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) into the realm of precision cosmology.

2025 Gruber Genetics Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2025 Genetics Prize to Rotem Sorek for ground-breaking discoveries of scores of anti-viral defense systems in bacteria and their evolutionary connections to our own innate immune system.

2025 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2025 Neuroscience Prize to Edward F. Chang for his groundbreaking research on how the human brain encodes speech.

2024 Gruber Prizes Awarded

2024 Gruber Cosmology Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2024 Cosmology Prize to Marcia Rieke for pioneering work on astronomical instrumentation to reveal the breadth and details of the infrared universe.

2024 Gruber Genetics Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2024 Genetics Prize to Hugo J. Bellen for ushering in a new era of model system genetics with direct impact on human disease.

2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize

The Gruber Foundation presents the 2024 Gruber Neuroscience Prize to Cornelia Bargmann and Gerald Rubin for fundamental research and leadership in the use of the invertebrate genetic model organisms in neuroscience.