2012 Professor Dame Kay Davies, University of Oxford

2011 Professor Dennis Selkoe, Harvard Medical School

2010 Dr Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University

2009 Professor Edvard Moser, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

2008 Professor Ray Dingledine, Emory University

2007 Professor Ray Dolan, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL

2006 Professor Pierre Magistretti

2005 Professor Yves Barde, University of Basel

2004 Professor Clifford Woolf, Harvard Medical School

2003 Professor Collin Blakemore, University of Oxford

2002 Professor Roger Tsien, University of California, San Diego

2001 Professor Andrew Lumsden, UMDS London

2000 Professor Jonathan Ashmore, University College London

1999 Professor Julian Jack of the Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford

1998 Professor Yadin Dudai of the Weizmann Institute in Israel

1997 Professor Apostolos Georgopolous of the University of Minnesota Medical School

1996 Professor Peter Seeburg , University of Heidleberg

1995 Professor Steve Lisberger, University of California

1994 Dr Tim Bliss of the National Institute for Medical Research, London

1993 Professor Alan Cowey, University of Oxford

1992 Dr Anita Harding, National Hospital, London

1991 Professor Tömas Hokfelt, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

1990 Professor Dale Purves of Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis

1989 Professor Semir Zeki, University College London