$100,000 prize honors female scientists who have made extraordinary contributions to biomedical science

Dr. Brenda Milner, a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, is the 2011 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. The award will be presented to her today by Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and former president of Chile, at a ceremony at Rockefeller University, New York. The prize, which carries an honorarium of $100,000, recognizes female scientists who have made exceptional contributions to biomedical science, a group that historically has not received appropriate...