Cornelia (Cori) Isabella Bargmann

Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann (born 1961) is an American neurobiologist. She is known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior using C. elegans, particularly the mechanisms of olfaction in the worm. She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016. It was announced on September 21, 2016 that she had been named the incoming president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, effective October 1, 2016. In 2012 she was awarded the $1 million Kavli Prize, and in 2013 the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Awards

• Lucille P. Markey Award (1990–1995)
• Searle Scholar Award (1992–1995)
• Taskago Prize for olfaction research (1997)
• W. Alden Spencer Award for neuroscience research (1997)
• Charles Judson Herick Award for compara

tive neurology (2000)

• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
• Dargut and Milena Kemali Prize for Basic and Clinical Neuroscience (2004)
• Richard Lounsbery Award (2009)
• Kavli Prize in neuroscience (2012)
• Member of the American Philosophical Society (2012)
• Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013) for the genetics of neural circuits and behavior, and synaptic guidepost molecules