Rafael Yuste

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Full Name	Rafael Yuste
Occupation	Scientist
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1963(1963-04-25)
Age	61
Country	Spain
Birth City	Madrid
Horoscope	Aries

Rafael Yuste Biography

Rafael Yuste is one of the most popular and richest Scientist who was born on April 25, 1963 in Madrid, Spain. Rafael Yuste, a Spanish neurobiologist, was born April 25, 1963 in Madrid. He is one of the initiators for the BRAIN Initiative.

Yuste suggested the idea of developing technologies that “record every single spike from every neuron”. Yuste then co-authored a whitepaper with George M. Church and Paul Alivisatos. This paper was based on the Human Genome Project and it was called the “Brain Activity Map Project”. The US BRAIN Initiative was announced by President Barack Obama two years later. It funds neuroscience research at over 500 labs and is slated for completion in 2025. Yuste warned against spreading too many funds to the initiative and said that it was necessary to focus efforts to develop technologies that allow for large-scale brain imaging at single-neuron resolution. These technologies would then be made available to the scientific community at observatories-like centers. Yuste was also a leader in the development of ethics guidelines for neurotechnology (ref Goering 2016, Yuste 2017). He proposed that five new NeuroRights to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be added. These rights would protect the privacy, identity, and equality of cognitive enhancement, as well as prevent algorithm biases. Professor Yuste received the Eliasson/Tallberg Foundation Prize in 2018 for his dedication to investigating the ethical implications of the use of emerging AI in the field. The prize is awarded to “exceptional leaders who are willing and capable to address the complexity 21st century challenges in innovative, risk-taking and ethical ways and whose work has global aspiration or implication, and is rooted within universal values.” This is an honor.

As of 2018 Yuste has published more than 200 papers. According to Google Scholar he has been cited more than 29,000 times for an h index of 94.

Yuste is an Ikerbasque research professor and spends several weeks a year at the Donosti Inter Physic Center, San Sebastian, Spain. He has also served or is currently serving on the scientific advisory boards of many institutes, foundations and companies in the US and Israel. These include the Fundacion Gaeda and the Allen Institute. The Biophysics Institute BIOFISIKA is a joint Research Centre of the Spanish National Research Council, the University of the Basque Country, and Harvard’s Conte Center. Yuste was a member of the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Frontiers in Neural Circuits (chief editors, 2006-2013), and Cerebral Cortex, (associate director, 1998).

Rafael Yuste Net Worth

Rafael Yuste is one of the richest Scientist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rafael Yuste 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yuste’s interest in neuroscience arose early, inspired by books like Santiago Ramon y Cajal’s Los Tonicos de la Voluntad: Reglas y consejos sobre investigacion cientifica and supported by his parents. He studied medicine at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid’s Fundacion Jimenez Diaz Hospital (1982-1987). Yuste found the treatment and understanding mental disorders to be “primitive”. He decided that instead practicing medicine, he would focus on the scientific foundation for future treatments using basic biological research. After spending two summers (1985/86) at the University of Cambridge’s laboratory of Sydney Brenner, Nobel laureate, Yuste decided to look for PhD opportunities in America due to the budget cuts of Margaret Thatcher. He was accepted to Rockefeller University in 1987 and joined the Torsten Wiesel group, which included Lawrence C. Katz. He developed the calcium imaging method to monitor and measure the activity of neuronal population. This technique relies on the principle that when an electric signal is applied to a neuron, it activates its calcium channels, allowing Ca ions into the cell. One can see when a neuron has become active by injecting a calcium-sensitive dye into it. Yuste’s 1992 doctoral thesis, Optical studies on calcium dynamics in the development of neocortical neurons (1992), describes this technique. It was written by Wiesel and Katz. Since then, it has been a technical pillar of neurobiology.

Yuste was an assistant professor at Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences in 1996. He received tenure in 2002, and became a full professor in 2006. He is co-director of Columbia University’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science since 2004 and the director of Columbia’s Neurotechnology Center since 2014.

In 2013 Yuste received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award with a grant of US$2.5 million to fund research to test the hypothesis of the cortex as a random circuit using novel two-photon imaging methods in a large-scale study of the mouse cortical microcircuit.

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Rafael Ranked on the list of most popular Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Rafael Yuste celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.