George W. Jacoby Award

The Jacoby Award is given triennially to a member of the American Neurological Association who, in the judgment of a review committee, has conducted especially meritorious experimental work on any neurologic or psychiatric subject in the preceding three years. 

The Annual Meeting Programming Committee (AMP) selects the recipient of this award. 


Award recipient will receive the following:

  • A commemorative plaque
  • Honorarium: $1,000 
  • Travel reimbursement up to $1,000


2023 Winner: Carsten G. Bonnemann, MD

Past Recipients:

  • 2020: David H. Gutmann

  • 2016: Huda Zoghbi * Selected as the Jacoby Award recipient in 2016 but gave her presentation and accepted the award at the 142nd Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association in 2017.

  • 2013: Mark Tuszynski

  • 2010: Josep Dalmau

  • 2007: Christopher Walsh

  • 2004: Kenneth H. Fischbeck

  • 1998: Henry J.M. Barnett

  • 1995: Lewis P. Rowland

  • 1992: Robert Joynt

  • 1989: Robert Katzman

  • 1986: Robert A. Fishman

  • 1984: Fred Plum

  • 1982: C. Miller Fisher

  • 1979: Paul Yakovlev

  • 1975: Raymond D. Adams

  • 1971: James L. O'Leary

  • 1968: Derek Denny-Brown

  • 1965: Houston Merritt

  • 1962: Stanley Cobb

  • 1959: Philip Bard

  • 1956: Horace Magoun

  • 1953: Wilder Penfield

  • 1950: Percival Bailey

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