F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship

The F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship was established in 1979 and has been given by outstanding neuroscientists and is not limited to members of the American Neurological Association.  Award recipients are selected each year by The Annual Meeting Programming (AMP) Committee.


Award recipient will receive the following:

  • A commemorative plaque
  • Honorarium: $1,000 
  • Travel reimbursement up to $1,000


2023 Recipient: Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc

Past Recipients

2022: Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
2021: Ingrid Scheffer
2020: Michelle Monje Deisseroth
2019: Alison Goate
2018:  Beverly Davidson
2017:  Adrian Krainer
2016: D. James Surmeier
2015: Erika Holzbaur
2014: Matthew State
2013: Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve
2012: Clifford Woolf
2011: Clifford B. Saper 
2010: Maurizio Corbetta 
2009: Richard M. Ransohoff 
2008: John Q. Trojanowski 
2007: Carol Barnes 
2006: Nora D. Volkow 
2005: Zach W. Hall 
2004: Marie T. Filbin
2003: Emmanuel J. Mignot
2002: Eric R. Kandel 
2001: Francis S. Collins 
2000: Peter St. George Hyslop 
1999: Stanley B. Prusiner 
1998: John Newsom-Davis 
1997: Allen D. Roses 
1996: Timothy A. Pedley
1995: Jerry R. Mendel
1994: David Marsden
1993: Nancy Wexler
1992: Eric Shooter
1991: Joshua R. Sanes
1990: Ray White
1989: Ian MacDonald
1988: James Gusella
1987: Mortimer Mishkin
1986: Sir Roger Bannister
1985: Michael J.G. Harrison
1984: Bo K. Siesjo
1983: Charles G. Drake
1982: Byron Waksman
1981: David Kuhl
1980: Solomon H. Snyder
1979: Louis Sokoloff