Established in 1992, the Distinguished Lecture Series is always one of the NRC’s most highly anticipated events. This annual event brings internationally renowned scientists, who are Nobel Laureates, or within the ranks of future Nobel Laureates, to deliver a lecture on their most eminent work.
Upcoming Distinguished Lecturer
Circuits and Computation: A Neuroscientist’s View of the Future of Psychiatry
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at noon
McGovern Medical School in MSB 2.006
Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S). Executive Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)
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| Year | Lecturer | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Grégoire Courtine, PhD | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) |
| 2023 | Ann Graybiel, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2022 | Cameron Carter, M.D. | University of California, Davis |
| 2021 | Ed Boyden, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2019 | Henry L. Roediger, III, Ph.D. | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2018 | Martha J. Farah, Ph.D. | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2017 | Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D. | Collège de France |
| 2016 | Kathleen T. Brady, M.D. Ph.D. | Medical University of South Carolina |
| 2015 | Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. | Rockefeller University |
| 2014 | Huda Zoghbi, M.D. | BCM |
| 2012 | Roger Tsien, Ph.D. | UCSD |
| 2011 | Daniel Weinberger, M.D. | NIMH |
| 2010 | Roger Rosenberg, M.D. | UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| 2009 | Masao Ito, M.D., Ph.D. | RIKEN Brain Institute |
| 2007 | John Mazziotti M.D., Ph.D. | UCLA Med School |
| 2006 | Donald L. Price, M.D. | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2006 | Fred Gage, Ph.D. | Salk Institute for Biological Sciences |
| 2005 | Paul Greengard, Ph.D. | The Rockefeller University |
| 2005 | Eric Kandel, M.D. | Colombia University |
| 2003 | Helen J. Neville, Ph.D. | University of Oregon |
| 2003 | Patricia K. Kuhl, Ph.D. | University of Washington |
| 2002 | Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. | The Rockefeller University |
| 2002 | Solomon Snyder, M.D. | Johns Hopkins University SOM |
| 2001 | David C. Van Essen, Ph.D. | Washington University SOM |
| 2000 | Joseph T. Coyle, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| 2000 | Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D. | Yale University SOM |
| 2000 | Eric R. Kandel, M.D. | Columbia University |
| 1999 | Gerald Edelman, M.D., Ph.D. | The Scripps Research Institute |
| 1998 | Dennis Selkoe, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| 1998 | Carla Schatz, Ph.D. | UC Berkeley |
| 1997 | Gerald Fischbach, M.D. | Harvard Medical School |
| 1997 | Rudolpho Llinas, M.D., Ph.D. | NYU Medical Center |
| 1996 | Susumu Tonegawa, Ph.D. | MIT |
| 1996 | Floyd E. Bloom, M.D. | Scripps Institute |
| 1995 | Stephen F. Heinemann, Ph.D. | The Salk Institute |
| 1994 | John Dowling, Ph.D. | Harvard University |
| 1994 | Marcus Raichle, M.D. | Washington University |
| 1993 | Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D. | Yale University |
| 1993 | Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D. | UC San Francisco |
| 1992 | Mortimer Mishkin, M.D. | NIH |