Collège de France and Institut Pasteur are honored by the decision of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to award the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience to Christine Petit, Chair of Genetics and Cellular Physiology, for her pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing. The prize, awarded every two years, consists of a $1 million (US) fund to be shared between Christine Petit and two other internationally renowned researchers: A. James Hudspeth (Rockfeller University, USA) and Robert Fettiplace (University of Wisconsin, USA). The prize was awarded on September 4, 2018 in Oslo.
About the Kavli Awards
The Kavli Prizes are the result of a partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Kavli Foundation (USA) and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. They are named after Fred Kavli, Norwegian-born American philanthropist and founder of the Kavli Foundation.
Awarded for the first time in 2008, the prizes recognize major advances in the understanding of life at its most vast, minute and complex scale. Awarded every two years to researchers in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, each prize consists of a fund of one million US dollars.
