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KNAW president Hans Clevers is one of the winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. The prize rewards excellence in medical research. Eleven winners will each receive USD 3 million. The prize was established by some of the most successful entrepreneurs of recent decades, who regard it as the Nobel Prize of the 21st century.
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) is now opening the annual call for fellowship applications. This is an opportunity for those who wish to spend a period of time during the academic year 2014/15 to conduct research as a part of the NIAS community.
On Monday 28 January 2013, cell biologists Graça Raposo and Harry Heijnen took receipt of the Descartes-Huygens Prize for 2012. Hans Clevers, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Pierre Ménat, French Ambassador to the Netherlands, presented the awards.
Why does one person sleep soundly while another is a light sleeper? Scientists have long understood that the quality of sleep differs dramatically from one person to the next, but the brain mechanisms underlying these differences are little known. Now researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have revealed some of the forces at play in the latest issue of the authoritative Journal of Neuroscience. 
Graça Raposo and Harry Heijnen will receive the Descartes-Huygens Prize on 28 January 2013. They have been awarded the prize for their outstanding research and their contribution to Franco-Dutch relations. The Descartes-Huygens Prize (EUR 23,000 each) is intended to cover the cost of their research residence in the Netherlands and France respectively.
Henkjan Honing, Professor of Music Cognition from the University of Amsterdam, wins the fifth Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship. Honing will explore what insights cognitive science and biology can provide on the origins of music and musicality. This will also be the topic of his interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center with the title Does Music Matter? Cognition, Biology, and the Origins of Music/ality.
Bram Jagersma will receive the 2013 De la Court Prize from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for his innovative study of Sumerian, one of the oldest written languages. The prize, a monetary award of EUR 7500, is awarded for unpaid, independent research.
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