Rakic Pasko

Paško Rakić is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine since 1978. He has also served as Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale since 2004. Previously, he held academic positions at Harvard Medical School (1962-1978) and the Biological Institute in Belgrade (1967-1969).

Research Interests

• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuronal proliferation, migration, and synaptogenesis
• Brain evolution and developmental neurobiology
• Neuropathology of congenital brain disorders
• Genetic and epigenetic regulation of neuronal interactions during development
• Study of spontaneous and induced mutations in mice

Scientific Honors

• Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA) 1985
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994
• President, Society for Neuroscience 1996
• Member, Institute of Medicine (USA) 1999
• Foreign Member, Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1985
• Foreign Member, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences 1990
• Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2008
• Recipients of numerous awards including Kavli Neuroscience Prize (2008) and Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)