The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation honors contemporary individuals in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience, Justice, and Women's Rights whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

Each award carries a gold medal and unrestricted cash prize of $500,000.

2007 Neuroscience Prize Japan’s quiet achiever Shigetada Nakanishi reveals molecular secrets underpinning the human nervous system.		2007 Women's Rights Prize Pinar Ilkkaracan and two organizations she co-founded, WWHR and the CSBR, succeeded in reforming Turkish laws towards gender equality and advancing human rights in Muslim societies.
2007 Genetics Prize The human genome would have been an impossible jigsaw puzzle without the work of Maynard Olson from University of Washington.		2007 Justice Prize Justice Carmen Argibay, Judge Carlos Cerda, and Mónica Feria defied tyranny in Latin America to help end intimidation and oppression, protect democratic principles.
2007 Cosmology Prize In 1998 two research teams discovered that the universe is getting bigger, faster. It seemed a crazy result. But it was true, and it led to the concept of dark energy.		Call for 2009 Nominations The Foundation is inviting nominations on behalf of individuals whose achievements make them suitable candidates for recognition through the Gruber Foundation International Prize Program.
Laureate Updates		Laureate Highlights
Gruber Prize Recipient John Mather wins Nobel John Mather, who led the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) team to the 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize, went on to be named co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.		David Botstein on Science Education 2003 Gruber Genetics Laureate and current Genetics Advisor David Botstein discusses science education at Princeton University.