We’re excited to share a special moment from the 10th Mediterranean Neuroscience Society Conference 2025 in Crete, Greece. Our lab director had the incredible opportunity to meet Professor George Paxinos AO, one of the most influential figures in modern neuroscience.

Professor Paxinos is universally recognized as “the man who mapped the brain.” He’s the author of “The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates,” which for three decades was the third most cited book in science with over 73,000 citations. This groundbreaking atlas revolutionized neuroscience by providing the first reliable three-dimensional framework for brain studies – essentially the GPS that every neuroscientist relies on. With 114,118 total citations and 58 published books, he has identified 94 nuclei in rat and human brains, making him one of the most influential neuroscientists of our time.

This meeting is particularly meaningful because Professor Paxinos’s work directly enables what we do in our translational neuropharmacology lab. His brain atlases serve as essential navigational tools for our drug discovery work, helping us understand precise anatomical targets and ensure accuracy when targeting specific brain regions for therapeutic development. Most scientists working on neurologic or psychiatric diseases rely on his maps and concepts.