Pasko Rakic

Pasko Rakic (Croatian: Paško Rakić, Serbian Cyrillic: Пашко Ракић) is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who presently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. He was the founder and served as Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale, and was founder and Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. He is best known for elucidating the mechanisms involved in development and evolution of the cerebral cortex. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, leads an active research laboratory, and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations.

Honors and Awards:

• Grass Foundation Award, 1985
• Karl Spencer Lashley Award, American Philosophical Society, 1986
• Francois I Medal, College de France, 1986
• Kreig Cortical Discoverer Award, 1989
• Marta Philipson Award, Stockholm 2000
• Pasarow Foundation Award, 2001
• Fyssen International Science Prize, 1992
• F.O. Schmitt Medal, 1992
• Weinstein-Goldenson Award (United Cerebral Palsy Foundation) 1994;
• Henry Gray Award, AAA, 1996
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Award, 2002
• Gerard Prize, SFN, 2002
• Inaugural Kavli Neuroscience Prize shared with T. Jessell & S. Grillner (2008)
• Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award shared with Paul Allen, 2010
• Max Cowan Award, 2013
• Sandy Palay Award, 2014
• Child Mind Institute Award, NYC, 2014
• Becker Award "Gesellschaft fuer Neuropaediatrie" 2014
• Royal Academy of Medicine (Spain), 2018
• Royal Academy of London (UK), 2018