{"id":54932,"date":"2025-10-13T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/?post_type=disclosure&#038;p=54932"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:01:39","slug":"salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-receives-2025-nih-directors-pioneer-award","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-receives-2025-nih-directors-pioneer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk-Wissenschaftler Terrence Sejnowski erh\u00e4lt den Pioneer Award des NIH-Direktors 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA \u2013 Das National Institutes of Health (NIH) hat den Salk-Neurobiologen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/scientist\/terrence-sejnowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terrence Sejnowski<\/a>, PhD, erh\u00e4lt eine Auszeichnung f\u00fcr 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/commonfund.nih.gov\/pioneer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIH Director's Pioneer Award<\/a>. Der prestigetr\u00e4chtige Preis wird an Wissenschaftler verliehen, die au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlich kreative, risikoreiche und vorteilhafte Forschung vorschlagen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53392\"  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"298\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-53392 size-col-md-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-458x298.jpg\" alt=\"Terrence Sejnowski\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-458x298.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-1024x667.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-147x96.jpg 147w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-585x381.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-553x360.jpg 553w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-750x489.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-767x500.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr-945x616.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terrence Sejnowski<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250520-pr-sejnowski-hr.jpg\">Klicken Sie hier<\/a> f\u00fcr ein hochaufl\u00f6sendes Bild.<br \/>Kredit: Salk Institut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sejnowski ist Professor, Leiter des Computational Neurobiology Laboratory und Inhaber des Francis Crick Chair am Salk Institute. Der Preis des NIH wird im Laufe der n\u00e4chsten f\u00fcnf Jahre $3,5 Millionen Dollar zur Unterst\u00fctzung des neuesten Projekts seines Labors bereitstellen, das fortschrittliche computergest\u00fctzte Techniken zur Analyse und Modellierung der neuronalen Schaltkreisdynamik des Arbeitsged\u00e4chtnisses nutzen wird. Die Ergebnisse werden Neurowissenschaftlern helfen, Ged\u00e4chtnisprobleme bei psychischen Erkrankungen wie Schizophrenie, traumatischen Hirnverletzungen (TBI) und posttraumatischen Belastungsst\u00f6rungen (PTSD) besser zu verstehen und zu behandeln.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIm Laufe seiner Karriere war Terry ein Pionier neuer Ideen und Technologien in der Neurowissenschaft\u201d, sagt der Pr\u00e4sident des Salk Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/scientist\/gerald-joyce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerald Joyce<\/a>, MD, PhD. \u201cDiese Auszeichnung bekr\u00e4ftigt die Kraft seines k\u00fchnen Denkens und wird es ihm erm\u00f6glichen, seine innovative Forschung fortzusetzen, die er am besten kann.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sejnowski ist untrennbar mit der Geschichte der Neuro\u00f6konomie, Neuroanatomie, Neurophysiologie, Psychologie und k\u00fcnstlichen Intelligenz verbunden. Die heutigen Fragen und Fortschritte in jedem dieser Bereiche wurden durch Sejnowskis Arbeit gepr\u00e4gt, darunter seine Erfindung der Boltzmann-Maschine im Jahr 1985 zusammen mit dem Informatiker und Kollegen Geoffrey Hinton, PhD.<\/p>\n<p>Die Boltzmann-Maschine ist der erste Algorithmus zur L\u00f6sung des Lernproblems in geschichteten neuronalen Netzen. Heute, 40 Jahre sp\u00e4ter, bleibt sie der biologisch plausibelste Algorithmus f\u00fcr k\u00fcnstliche neuronale Netze. Sejnowski entwickelte auch bahnbrechend ein Computerprogramm namens NETtalk, das lernen konnte, geschriebenen Text wie das menschliche Gehirn in Sprache umzuwandeln. Diese Leistungen legten den Grundstein f\u00fcr die moderne k\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz und Werkzeuge wie ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>Sejnowski hat auch zu Fortschritten in der Bildgebung des menschlichen Gehirns und unserem Verst\u00e4ndnis der neuronalen Grundlagen des Verhaltens beigetragen. In j\u00fcngster Zeit entwickelte Sejnowski ein\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/upgrading-brain-storage-quantifying-how-much-information-our-synapses-can-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neue Technik zur Messung der Pr\u00e4zision von synaptischer St\u00e4rke und Plastizit\u00e4t<\/a>, die neue Forschung zu Lernen und Ged\u00e4chtnis unterst\u00fctzt und untersucht, wie diese Prozesse im Alter und bei Krankheiten nachlassen.<\/p>\n<p>Diese neueste Auszeichnung ist eine von vielen prestigetr\u00e4chtigen Anerkennungen, die Sejnowski im Laufe der Jahre erhalten hat, darunter die\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-professor-terrence-sejnowski-wins-brain-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Gehirnpreis<\/a> und die <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-institutes-terrence-sejnowski-awarded-gruber-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gruber-Preis f\u00fcr Neurowissenschaften 2022<\/a>. Er ist au\u00dferdem Mitglied der National Academy of Sciences, der National Academy of Medicine, der National Academy of Engineering, der National Academy of Inventors der Vereinigten Staaten und des <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-the-royal-society-and-the-american-philosophical-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amerikanische Philosophische Gesellschaft<\/a>, ebenso wie ein Fellow am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-the-royal-society-and-the-american-philosophical-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K\u00f6nigliche Gesellschaft<\/a> im Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":53394,"template":"","faculty":[114],"disease-research":[279,124],"class_list":["post-54932","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-terrence-sejnowski","disease-research-awards","disease-research-neuroscience-and-neurological-disorders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salk scientist Terrence Sejnowski receives 2025 NIH Director\u2019s Pioneer Award - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-receives-2025-nih-directors-pioneer-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk scientist Terrence Sejnowski receives 2025 NIH Director\u2019s Pioneer Award - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA\u2014The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Salk neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, to receive a 2025 NIH Director\u2019s Pioneer Award. 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