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Mind Science Foundation announces Rare Consciousness Research Awards

ment, named one of the "50 most inspirational women in the world" (Harpers); and Drs. Toby Collins and Edward Mann - Oxford University, London

  • J. Allan Hobson, Ph.D., director of Harvard Medical School's Laboratory of Neurophysiology, and Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., both internationally recognized sleep and dream researchers; and Drs. David Kahn and Edward Schott - Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston

  • Fred H. Gage, PhD., named as a "TIME 100: The Next Wave Innovator" and winner of the Decade of the Brain Award; and Leigh Humm Leasure, Ph.D., winner of a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health - Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla

  • Elizabeth Mayer, Ph.D., Psychology Department UC-Berkeley, affiliated with the International Consciousness Research Lab founded by Brenda Dunne and Dr. Robert Jahn of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), who have worked to develop aspects of "Coincidence Theory" which was named by the New York Times among the "67 most exciting new ideas for 2003." - University of California-Berkeley and Princeton University (PEAR/ICRL)

  • Steven Laureys, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist and neuroscience researcher with expertise in coma, vegetative, minimally conscious and locked-in syndrome states; and Dr. Pierre Maquet, noted expert in sleep and dream research - Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege, Belgium

    The awards are named after visionary entrepreneur, explorer, philanthropist, and author Tom Slick (1916-1962) whose notable institutional legacies are the Southwest Research Institute (the world's third-largest nonprofit applied research institute) and the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, with a current staff of nearly 400 people.

    In 1958, Slick established a smaller organization, the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, expressly to explore the human mind. "I regard
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    • Contact: Catherine Brillson
    cbrillson@mindscience.org
    210-821-6094
    Mind Science Foundation
    11-Feb-2004


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