The GL Brown Annual Public Prize Lecture
This annual public lecture is to stimulate an interest in physiology. The audience for this lecture is primarily schools and the wider public, as well as students and staff with an interest in physiology.
Nominations for the 2026 GL Brown Annual Public Prize Lecture have now closed.
Who can be nominated?
- All physiologists are eligible, but the nomination should describe how the nominee would deliver a compelling public lecture
- You can nominate another person but not yourself
What is the award?
- £750
- Lecture is delivered online
- Publication in Experimental Physiology, subject to Editorial Board agreement
How can I nominate?
Nominations open from 1 October to 30 November
What are the selection criteria?
The Prize Lecture Award Panel base their evaluations on the overall quality of relevant contributions and achievements by nominees, in relation to the selection criteria listed below. The selection committee will consider the following aspects of nominations for this prize and nominators should include the following information:
- What topic would the nominee speak on for their public lecture?
- Please describe the skills the nominee has for delivering a compelling public lecture (150 words)
- What their citation count or h-index is
- A description of how the body of work of the nominee has changed our understanding of physiology (150 words)
- A description of the impact the nominee’s work has had inside and outside academia (150 words)
- Details of any career breaks and/or challenges that may have been overcome (150 words)
Guidelines for nominators
- Nominations open 1 October
- Nominations close 30 November
- Anyone can nominate for this prize
- Nominees may NOT nominate themselves
- The prize is open to nominees based in the UK and Internationally
- There are no career stage restrictions associated with this prize
- We will not consider nominations of deceased individuals
- Nominees can only be considered for one of our prizes in any given year. In a case where a nominee is nominated for more than one prize independently, it is at the discretion of the Prize Lecture Award Panel which prize they will be considered for.
- Trustees of The Physiological Society are not eligible to be nominated
- When nominating previous prize winners, please remember that a person cannot be awarded twice for substantially the same body of work.
- Nominees should only be nominated once for this prize in any given prize cycle. In cases where we receive more than one nomination for the same nominee, only one nomination will go forward to the panel.
Previous winners
2013/14: David A Eisner
2014/15: Mike Tipton
2015/16: Molly Stevens
2016/17: Rachel Tribe
2017/18: Andrew J Parker
2018/19: Pamela Shaw
2019/2020: Dino Giussani
2020/2021: David Sheppard
2021/2022: Lecture not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022/2023: Sandip Patel