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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.

2011 marked the final Justice and Women's Rights Prizes of The Gruber Foundation, which has moved to Yale University, where the mission of its two human rights prizes have merged and transitioned into the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights. Click here to read the official press release for more information.

*Cosmology image credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration - D. Ducros
*Neuroscience image credit: reprinted with permission from the Society for Neuroscience

2018 Cosmology Prize Announced The Planck Team, and PIs Mandolesi and Puget, made definitive measurements of the properties of our expanding universe.	Justice and Women's Rights A Yale University Program, The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights is administered by Yale Law School.
2018 Genetics Prize Announced Joanne Chory & Elliot Meyerowitz helped revolutionize plant molecular biology, with implications for agriculture, the environment, and human health and disease.	Science Fellowship at Yale Administered by the Graduate School, the Gruber Science Fellowship is awarded to the most highly ranked applicants to Yale PhD programs in the life sciences, cosmology, and astrophysics.
2018 Neuroscience Prize Announced Ann M. Graybiel, Okihide Hikosaka and Wolfram Schultz are pioneers in the study of the structure, organization and functions of the basal ganglia.	Young Scientists Awards and Fellowships The Gruber Foundation's Young Scientists Awards recognize the achievements of brilliant early-career scientists from around the world.

Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women's Rights

Ai-jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo gave the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women's Rights on February 26, 2018. Poo's lecture was titled "Care and the Future of Work."

Call for Nominations

Nominations to the 2019 Gruber Prizes are now open.