Professor Colin Blakemore has been given the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award, for foreigners ‘who have made outstanding contriutions to China’s economic and social progress’. Further information can be found by following this link.
In addition, on 14 October in New Orleans, he will receive the Ralph Gerard Prize for lifetime contribution to neuroscience. It is the highest recognition conferred by the Society for Neuroscience. Further information can be found by following this link.