The Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley plenary lectures are a major feature within the programme. We are delighted to welcome Professor Amy Arnsten and Professor Lorenz Studer to Cambridge. These plenary lectures are named in honour of Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley, 2 Cambridge alumni who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 (jointly with John Eccles), “for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane”. 

This year, we are excited to launch the Cambridge Neuroscience Compston-Robbins Plenary Lecture. This lecture has been established to honour a member of Cambridge Neuroscience that has contributed significantly to the field. It has been named in honour of Professors Alastair Compston and Trevor Robbins, the two founding Directors of Cambridge Neuroscience. We are delighted to award this inaugural lecture to Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly. 

You can read more about the history of Cambridge Neuroscience here. 

Previous Alan Hodgkin Plenary Lecture Recipients

2007 – Linda Buck, University of Washington

2009 – Daniel Weinberger, NIH

2011 – Fiona Doetsch, Columbia University

2013 – Bert Sakmann, Max Planck, Germany

2015 – Winfried Denk, Max Planck, Germany

2017 – Ed Callaway, The Salk Institute

2019 – Demis Hassabis, DeepMind

Previous Andrew Huxley Plenary Lecture Recipients

2007 – Tom Jessell, Columbia University

2009 – Nora Volkow, NIDA

2011 – Rusty Gage, The Salk Institute

2013 – Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

2015 – Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University

2017 – Bill Seeley, UCSF

2019 – Catherine Dulac, Harvard University