Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award
The nomination period for 2025 awards is now closed. The nomination period for 2026 SRS Awards will open late August 2025.
The Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award is presented to one or more individuals to recognize a specific, novel, and seminal research discovery that has significantly impacted the sleep and circadian research field. This award honors a single scientist or up to three members of a scientific team most responsible for the design, conduct, and publication of the work.
Selection criteria generally include:
- A specific major contribution that has been presented in either a single publication or multiple related publications.
- Scientific advances recognized by this award may be basic, translational, clinical, or theoretical in nature.
Please note that while the nominator must be an SRS member, the nominee does not need to hold membership. For self-nominations, the individual must be a member of the SRS.
Questions? Please contact the SRS Coordinator at coordinator@srsnet.org.
2025 Recipient
“It is an honor to receive this award from the Society of Sleep Research. The prize acknowledges the collaborative work with a brilliant scientist, dear colleague, and friend, the late Steve Brown. His creative vision made this work possible, and this award is a tribute to him. The award is dedicated to him, as well as to the excellent students who contributed to this research, Sara B. Noya and Franziska Bruening.
This recognition underscores the value of multi-omics approaches in exploring the molecular underpinnings of the two-process model of sleep regulation, a seminal model introduced more than 40 years ago by the pioneer sleep researcher Alexander Borbély.”
Past Recipients
2024 – David M. Raizen, MD, PhD
2023 – Joseph T. Bass, MD, PhD
2022 – Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc
2021 – Colin E. Sullivan, PhD
2020 – Richard P. Allen, PhD
2019 – Frank A. J. L. Scheer, PhD; Steven A. Shea, PhD
2018 – Chiara Cirelli, MD, PhD
2017 – Niels C. Rattenborg, PhD
2016 – Luis de Lecea, PhD
2015 – Arthur J. Spielman, PhD
2014 – David Holtzman, MD
2013 – Amita Sehgal, PhD
2012 – Joseph Takahashi, PhD
2011 – Terry B. Young, PhD
2010 – Mark Mahowald, MD; Carlos Schenck, MD
2009 – David B. Rye, MD, PhD; Juliane Winkelmann, MD
2008 – Robert Y. Moore, MD, PhD; Friedrich K. Stephen, PhD; Irving Zucker, PhD
2007 – Eve Van Cauter, PhD
2006 – Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD; Masashi Yanagisawa, MD, PhD