Synapsy Prize award ceremony
Eric Nestler awarded the 2025 Synapsy Prize
The Synapsy Centre is proud to announce that professor Eric Nestler has been selected as the 2025 laureate of the Synapsy Prize. The prize celebrates outstanding contributions to the neurobiology of mental disorders and promotes translational research bridging basic and clinical science.
Researcher and dean at the Icahn school of medicine at Mount Sinai (New York) and former director of the Friedman brain institute, Eric Nestler has devoted his career to exploring the biological basis of depression and addiction. His pioneering work has revealed how stress and addictive substances can durably alter gene expression in the brain, reshaping the neural circuits involved in reward and mood.
Eric Nestler career embodies the spirit of Synapsy : a research vision that unites neurosciences and psychiatry to better understand mental illness.
He will deliver a masterclass with students and a lecture at Campus Biotech (see details below).
Congratulations to Eric Nestler from the whole Synapsy community !
→ Read the interview with Pr. Nestler.
Ceremony programme
Campus Biotech, Geneva
9 December 2025
Master Class
Campus Biotech: Room H8-01-F
- 08h30: Welcome coffee
- 09h00: Master Class with the Award winner
- 12h00: Lunch with the Award winner and Photo session
- 13h30 – 15h00: Presentation Preparation
Symposium & Award Ceremony
Campus Biotech: Auditorium
- 14h30: Welcome coffee
- 15h00: Opening – Christian Lüscher, Coordinator (Synapsy Center & NEUFO) & Stefan Kaiser, Co-coordinator (Synapsy Center & HUG)
- 15h15: Presentation 1 (Local Speaker chosen by the Master Class)
- 15h40: Presentation 2 (Local Speaker chosen by the Master Class)
- 16h05: Presentation 3 (Local Speaker chosen by the Master Class)
- 16h30: Award Winner Presentation works & discussion
- 17h15: Word of the Jury
- 17h30: Word of the Attorney
- 17h35: Award ceremony and photo session
