David Marsden Award

David MarsdenAWARD

2026

Ahmet Kaymak

Winner David Marsden Award 2025

David Marsden Award 2025

The David Marsden Award 2025 was awarded to Ahmet Kaymak for the paper: “Spiking Patterns in the Globus Pallidus Highlight Convergent Neural Dynamics across Diverse Genetic Dystonia Syndromes”. The research was performed at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Institute of BioRobotics

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About Dr. C. David Marsden

(Charles) David Marsden (1938–1998), was a British neurologist who made a significant contribution to the field of movement disorders. He was described as ‘arguably the leading academic neurologist and neuroscientist of his generation in the UK’.

about the david marsden award

Dystonia Europe established the David Marsden Award in 2003, to acknowledge Prof Marsden’s work on the dystonias, and to honour the immense part he played in improving the lives of so many people who live with the condition.

The David Marsden Award 2026 is supported by Dystonia Europe.

The David Marsden Award 2026

The aim of this award is to stimulate developing knowledge of and interest in dystonia through publications of aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis in dystonia or on the psycho social effects.

€ 10.000,-

to stimulate research on dystonia

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