Cornelia Bargmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cornelia Bargmann

American neurobiologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1961

Place of Birth: Virginia, United States

Profession: biologist, neuroscientist, neurobiologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Cornelia Isabella "Cori" Bargmann (born 1961) is an American neurobiologist.
She is known for her work on the genetic and neural circuit mechanisms of behavior using C.
elegans, particularly the mechanisms of olfaction in the worm.
She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and had been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UCSF and then Rockefeller University from 1995 to 2016.
It was announced on September 21, 2016 that she had been named the incoming president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, effective October 1, 2016.
In 2012 she was awarded the $1 million Kavli Prize, and in 2013 the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.