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SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION AWARDED

For his outstanding research on synaptic transmission in the mammalian brain, Prof. Peter Jonas (Institute of Physiology, Freiburg) recently received the Leibniz award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The Leibniz Prize, valued 1.55 million €, is the most prestigious research award in Germany. Part of the work is being done within the recently founded Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Freiburg. Prof Jonas describes here for us a summary of the research activities which led to the attribution of this award.