The 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience was bestowed on three HFSP alumni that undertook groundbreaking research through HFSP funded research projects that established initial protocols and concepts about face recognition and how the neural mechanisms compile this information into knowledge.
Nancy Kanwisher, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, lead a 1997 HFSP Research Grant on attentional modulation of visual recognition with members from Germany, USA and the UK and later on was a coinvestigator on a 2001 Research Grant with colleagues from Cuba, Italy, and the UK that extended the initial research to analyze the neural basis of nonspatial visual attention focusing on objects, features and behavior.
Winrich Freiwald was an investigator of a 2013 HFSP Research Grant team that studied neural representation of concepts and their role in perception and memory, and included team members from Argentina, Italy, and Israel.
Doris Tsao, was a coinvestigator on a 2016 HFSP Research Grant that looked at neural mechanisms underlying the visual analysis of intent and included colleagues from Germany and the USA.
Congratulations from the entire HFSP community!