Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture

Annual Review Prize Lecture
Sponsored by	The Physiological Society
Location	London
Presented by	The Physiological Society
Website	www.physoc.org/supporting-you/prize-lectures/annual-review-prize-lecture/

The Physiology Society Annual Review Prize Lecture is an award conferred by The Physiological Society. First awarded in 1968, it is one of the premier awards of the society.^[1]

Recipients

Recipients of the prize, and their lectures, have included:^[2][3]

• 1968 (1968): William D.M. Paton
• 1969 (1969): Geoffrey Harris (neuroendocrinologist)
• 1970 (1970): W. A. H. Rushton – Pigments and signals in colour vision^[4]
• 1971 (1971): Henry Barcroft – An enquiry into the nature of the mediator of the vasodilatation in skeletal muscle in exercise and during circulatory arrest
• 1972 (1972): John Eccles – The cerebellum as a computer: patterns in space and time
• 1973 (1973): Andrew F. Huxley – Muscular contraction
• 1974 (1974): A. A. Harper [Wikidata]
• 1975 (1975): Hugh Davson – The blood–brain barrier
• 1976 (1976): Alan Lloyd Hodgkin – Chance and design in electrophysiology: an informal account of certain experiments on nerve carried out between 1934 and 1952
• 1977 (1977): Raymond Michael Gaze
• 1978 (1978): K. W. Cross [Wikidata] – La Chaleur Animale and the infant brain (lecture delivered 1979)
• 1979 (1979): Geoffrey Burnstock – Neurotransmitters and trophic factors in the autonomic nervous system
• 1980 (1980): Peter Matthews (physiologist) – Evolving views on the internal operation and functional role of the muscle spindle
• 1981 (1981): H. H. Loeschke [Wikidata] – Central chemosensitivity and the reaction theory (Loeschche was unable to deliver his lecture owing to ill-health, but it was published)
• 1982 (1982): Geoffrey S. Dawes – The central control of fetal breathing and skeletal muscle movements
• 1983 (1983): Denis Noble – The surprising heart: a review of recent progress in cardiac electrophysiology
• 1984 (1984): Roger C. Thomas – Experimental displacement of intracellular pH and the mechanism of its subsequent recovery
• 1985 (1985): Daniel J. C. Cunningham [Wikidata] – Studies on arterial chemoreceptors in man
• 1986 (1986): David M. Armstrong [Wikidata] – The supraspinal control of mammalian locomotion
• 1987 (1987): Christopher C. Michel [Wikidata] – Capillary permeability and how it may change
• 1988 (1988): Pierre Dejours [Wikidata] – From comparative physiology of respiration to several problems of environmental adaptations and to evolution
• 1989 (1989): J. V. G. A. Durnin [Wikidata]
• 1990 (1990): Olga Hudlická – What makes blood vessels grow?
• 1991 (1991): Ole H. Petersen – Stimulus-secretion coupling: cytoplasmic calcium signals and the control of ion channels in exocrine acinar cells
• 1992 (1992): Ian M. Glynn – All hands to the sodium pump
• 1993 (1993): Kenneth M. Spyer [Wikidata] – Central nervous mechanisms contributing to cardiovascular control
• 1994 (1994): C. B. Wollheim [Wikidata]
• 1995 (1995): Colin Blakemore
• 1996 (1996): Michael J. Berridge – Elementary and global aspects of calcium signalling
• 1997 (1997): Lily Yeh Jan – Voltage-gated and inwardly rectifying potassium channels
• 1998 (1998): Nancy J. Rothwell – Cytokines – killers in the brain?
• 1999 (1999): Richard Alan North
• 2000 (2000): Francisco Bezanilla
• 2001 (2001): Stephen O'Rahilly
• 2002 (2002): John Sulston
• 2003 (2003): Frances M. Ashcroft
• 2004 (2004): Robin F. Irvine [Wikidata] – Inositide evolution – towards turtle domination?
• 2005 (2005): Graham J. Dockray
• 2006 (2006): M. Fishman [Wikidata] (Fishman was unable to deliver his lecture)
• 2007 (2007): T. B. Bolton [Wikidata]
• 2008 (2008): Robert G. Edwards (Edwards was unable to deliver his lecture)
• 2009 (2009): Stephen G. Waxman
• 2010 (2010): Roger Y. Tsien
• 2011 (2011): Carla J. Shatz
• 2012 (2012): Peter J. Ratcliffe – Oxygen sensing in animals^[5]
• 2013 (2013): Eric Gouaux – The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses^[6]
• 2014 (2014): Richard W. Tsien – Excitation-transcription coupling: novel mechanisms and implications for brain disease
• 2015 (2015): Annette Dolphin – From trafficking of neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels to neuropathic pain
• 2016 (2016): John O'Keefe – The Cognitive Map Theory of Hippocampal Function: An update^[7]
• 2017 (2017): David Eisner – Ups and downs of calcium in the heart
• 2018 (2018): Juleen Zierath – Interplay between diet, exercise and the molecular circadian clock in orchestrating metabolic adaptations of adipose tissue
• 2019 (2019): Silvia Arber

See also

• Joan Mott Prize Lecture

References

1. "Prize lectures". The Physiological Society. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
2. "Lectures and Prizes". The Physiological Society. 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
3. "Annual Review Prize Lecture". The Physiological Society. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
4. Rushton, W. A. H. (1972). "Pigments and signals in colour vision". Journal of Physiology. 220 (222). The Physiological Society: 99P – 118P. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1972.sp009719. PMC 1331666. PMID 4336741.
5. Oxygen sensing in animals on YouTube
6. The molecular mechanisms of signaling at chemical synapses on YouTube
7. The Cognitive Map Theory of Hippocampal Function: An update on YouTube