Professor John O’Keefe

Neuroscientist

New York-born John O’Keefe is a current professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Anatomy at University College London, and is renowned for his great discovery of, and further research into, ‘place cells’ in the brain. After receiving his education in the United States, Professor O’Keefe came to UCL in 1967 as a US NIMH postdoctoral fellow. Since then he has won numerous honours and awards including the 2007 British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience. In the last year alone he has been co-awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. A fellow of the Royal Society and UK Academy of Medical Sciences, he was also appointed inaugural director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. 

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