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 awardee receives a $1000 honorarium and a commemorative plaque. 

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

 

2020 Winner: David H. Gutmann

Past Recipients:

  • 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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