Professor Barbara Sahakian has been awarded the CINP Pioneer Award for 2026

Join us in congratulating Professor Barbara Sahakian from Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute on receiving the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Pioneer Award for 2026.

This prestigious Award is given at each World Congress to honour those who have made major contributions to the field of neuropsychopharmacology. Professor Sahakian has made major contributions and is internationally recognized as significant to the growth of the field of neuropsychopharmacology. Professor Sahakian will receive the Award officially at the CINP Congress in Glasgow in June 2026.

The list of Recipients of the Award are below:

• 2026 – Barbara J. Sahakian (UK) – read bio, Pierre Blier (Canada) – read bio
• 2025 – Siegfried Kasper (Austria), Brian Dean (Australia)
• 2024 – Shigeto Yamawaki (Japan)
• 2023 – Eric Kandel (USA), Raquel Gur (USA), Raphael Mechoulam (Israel)
• 2022 – Toshitaka Nabeshima (Japan), Nancy Andreasen (USA), Tomas Hökfelt (Sweden)
• 2020 – Oleh Hornykiewicz (Austria), Torgny Svensson (Sweden), Judith Rapoport (USA)
• 2018 – Kjell Fuxe (Sweden), Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany), Robert Post (USA), Susan Iversen (UK)
• 2016 – George Aghajanain (USA), Sun Kil Min (Republic of Korea), Herbert Meltzer (USA), Stuart Montgomery (UK)
• 2014 – Julien Mendlewicz (Belgium), Thomas Südhof (USA), Solomon Snyder (USA)
• 2012 – William Bunney (USA), Karl Rickels (USA), Moussa L. Youdim (Israel)
• 2010 – Per Bech (Denmark), Salomon Langer (Israel), Teruo Okuma (Japan)
• 2008 – Jean-Pierre Changeux (France), Samuel Gershon (USA), Hannah Steinberg (UK)
• 2006 – Leonard Cook (USA), Fridolin Sulser (USA), Merton Sandler (UK)
• 2004 – Hanns Hippius (Germany), Alfred Pletscher (Switzerland), Herman M. van Praag (The Netherlands)
• 2002: Frank Ayd, Jr. (USA), Arvid Carlsson (Sweden), Jonathan Cole (USA)

Posted on 04/09/2025