Nobel prize winner to get UCC doctorate

Nobel Prize winner John O’Keefe will receive an honorary doctorate at University College Cork today.

Prof O’Keefe, who is based in University College London, was recently jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, for discovering an ‘inner GPS’ that helps the brain to navigate.

UCC is in turn recognising Prof O’Keefe with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) in recognition of his ground-breaking contributions to neuroscience.