The 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.

2011 marks the final Justice and Women's Rights Prizes of Gruber Foundation, which prepares to move to Yale University, where the mission of its two human rights prizes will merge and transition in 2012 into the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights. Click here to read the official press release for more information.

Each award carries a gold medal and unrestricted cash prize of $500,000.
*Photo courtesy of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

2011 Neuroscience Prize Awarded Through her pioneering research, neuroscientist Huda Y. Zoghbi has unlocked the genetic and molecular mysteries of a number of devastating neurological disorders.		2011 Justice Prize Awarded Barbara Arnwine, Morris Dees, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Center for Legal and Social Studies, and the Kurdish Human Rights Project have provided access to legal justice to victims of discrimination and oppression.
2011 Cosmology Prize Awarded By simulating the growth of the universe on the largest scales, Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, Carlos Frenk, and Simon White demonstrated how matter gathered into galaxies, and how superclusters of galaxies gathered into a cosmic web.*		2011 Women's Rights Prize Awarded Through strategies of advocacy, legal aid, health care, housing, trauma counseling and income generation, AVEGA Agahozo, an association of genocide widows in Rwanda, has restored the dignity of thousands of women survivors.
2011 Genetics Prize Awarded The groundbreaking biotechnologies developed by biochemist and geneticist Ronald W. Davis have played an indispensable role in advancing the fields of molecular genetics and genomics.		Young Scientists Awards and Fellowships The Gruber Foundation's Young Scientists Awards recognize the achievements of brilliant early-career scientists from around the world.
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Another Honor for a Peacemaker The Gruber Foundation Congratulates 2009 Women's Rights Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee on her 2011 Nobel Peace Prize!		A crazy result that triggered the hunt for dark energy The Gruber Foundation Congratulates 2007 Cosmology Prize laureates Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess on their 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics!