Congratulations to Sabine for this wonderful accomplishment! 

“Groundbreaking Studies” Earn Kastner the 2024 Golden Brain Award | Princeton Neuroscience Institute

“We are delighted to award the Minerva Foundation Golden Brain Award 2024 to Sabine Kastner for her groundbreaking studies on the mechanisms underlying visual attention,” said Daniel Wolpert, Ph.D., professor of neuroscience at Columbia University and the chair of the award committee. “The Golden Brain awardee is chosen on the basis of innovative investigations and the resulting influence of those findings on the field of vision and the brain.”

Dr. Kastner is only the sixth woman to receive the award in the 40-year history of the foundation, proceeded by two of her former mentors: the late Princeton professor Anne Treisman, Ph.D. (1996), and Leslie Ungerleider, Ph.D. (2011).

The recognition is exceptionally notable as it is one of the first times the Golden Brain Award has honored a neuroscientist who connects disparate disciplines and draws inspiration from traditionally siloed areas of science.