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


2024 Recipient: Brian Litt, MD, PhD

Past Recipients

  • 2023: Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc
  • 2022: Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD2021: 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