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Nobel Laureate Professor

John OÕKeefe as he received an honorary doctorate from University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and delivered a lecture at a major neuroscience symposium on 15 December 2014. UCC President Dr Michael Murphy said the honorary doctorate (Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science (DSc)) was in recognition of Professor O'Keefe's ground-breaking contributions to neuroscience. Professor OÕKeefe, who is based out of University College London and was born in New York City to Irish immigrant parents, was recently jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Norwegian neuroscientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, for discovering an Ôinner GPSÕ that helps the brain to navigate. His father hailed from Newmarket (Scarteen Lower), Co. Cork, and whose mother from Co. Mayo (Breaffy) in Ireland and he still has relatives living in both areas today, many who travelled to the UCC ceremony. Pictured following the ceremony were Professor John OÕKeefe with his cousins Joe O'Keeffe from College Road and Mary O'Callaghan from Donoughmore.
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