Pasko Rakic

Pasko Rakic ForMemRS
Rakic in 2016
Born	(1933-05-15) May 15, 1933 (age 91) Ruma, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Belgrade Harvard University
Awards	Kavli Prize (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	Yale University

Pasko Rakic ForMemRS (Croatian: Paško Rakić; Serbian Cyrillic: Пашко Ракић; born May 15, 1933) is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who presently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. He was the founder and served as Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale, and was founder and Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. He is best known for elucidating the mechanisms involved in development and evolution of the cerebral cortex. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.^[1] He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, leads an active research laboratory, and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations.