Hagai Bergman has been awarded for the Israel Prize in Life Sciences Research

Together with two other scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the psychologist Gershon Ben-Shakhar and the mathematician Ya’acov Ritov, Professor Hagai Bergman is awarded for the most important and prestigious prize of the State of Israel. First awarded in 1953 by Minister of Education Ben-Tzur Dinor, the Israel Prize has been awarded every year since during a state ceremony on the eve of the Israeli Independence Day.

On May 14, 2024, Hagai Bergman will receive the Israel Prize in Life Sciences Research. Professor Bergman is a neuroscientist and physician at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Research and Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an active member of the Jerusalem Brain Community. His remarkable achievements have not only expanded our understanding of basal ganglia (patho-)physiology but he is also known for his important contribution to the study of Parkinson’s disease and its treatment, in which Hagai Bergman played a pivotal role in the development of a neurological and psychiatric treatment method based on electrical stimulation and changing the activity of brain areas, also known as ‘deep brain stimulation’. This method is currently the main treatment method for the motor symptoms of advanced Parkinson’s disease and other motor disorders associated with the disease.

Hagai Bergman was keynote speaker at the Berlin Neuroscience Meeting 2023 and is collaborating closely with ECN PI’s Andrea Kühn and Wolf-Julian Neumann. Their last work together was published in the journal Brain Stimulation in January.

The ECN and its members congratulate Professor Bergman wholeheartedly for winning this year’s Israel Prize in Life Sciences Research.

Source: Press Release ELSC - The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences