The winner of the Senior Prize of the Roche Awards for Translational Neuroscience is Dr Alcino Silva, whose laboratory is at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) .

The winners were selected by the Scientific Organisers of the 2009 Roche-Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium, whose members include Dr Thomas R. Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, USA and Dr Gerald D. Fischbach, Scientific Director of the Simons Foundation, USA. The award was presented on Saturday, April 18, at the symposium which focused on autism and other developmental brain disorders. The Symposium took place at Roche’s conference centre in Buonas, Switzerland from 17-18 April.