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Princeton’s Mala Murthy wins Wiley Prize for mapping brain wiring
Murthy and the other three winners will receive their prizes at the annual Wiley Prize lecture on Apr. 10.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Fri, 20, Feb 2026
- 01:48 EST
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Mala Murthy, director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) and Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience. / pni.princeton.edu/
Mala Murthy, director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) and Karol and Marnie Marcin ’96 Professor of Neuroscience, has been awarded the 24th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.
Murthy, along with Sebastian Seung, John White, and Gerald Rubin, received this prize for reconstructing and interpreting connectomes, the wiring diagrams that anatomically interconnect nerve cells and thereby drive information processing in nervous systems.
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Mala Murthy, who has held the position of Director of PNI since 2022, implemented her expertise in fruit fly neuroscience with Seung’s contributions, which led to the 2024 announcement of the first complete brain map of an adult fruit fly, in collaboration with the international FlyWire community.
Speaking about receiving the Wiley Prize, Murthy told Princeton University,
“I feel very humbled and honored by this prize. The big surprise to me is how quickly this achievement has been recognized.”
Princeton's Mala Murthy and @SebastianSeung have been awarded the Wiley Prize “for reconstructing and interpreting connectomes, the wiring diagrams that anatomically interconnect nerve cells and thereby drive information processing in nervous systems.” https://t.co/JcrM9JIgrp
— Princeton University (@Princeton) February 19, 2026
Each year, between one and four scientists are honored. Of the 55 Wiley Prize winners over the past 24 years, 13 have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and five have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Murthy has also previously been the recipient of several other honors, including the 2011 NSF CAREER Award, the 2017 NSF BRAIN Initiative Award, the 2015 Princeton Dean’s Innovation Fund for New Ideas, and the 2012 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences.
Established in 2001 and first awarded in 2002, the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences is an international award presented annually by the Wiley Foundation to recognize breakthrough research that opens new fields or advances concepts in biomedical disciplines.
Murthy and the other three winners will receive their prizes at the annual Wiley Prize lecture on Apr. 10.
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