2022-2023 Margaret McCarthy, University of Maryland, "Immune Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain"
2019-2020 Cecilia Flores, McGill University, "How do experiences in adolescence shape the developing brain?"
2018-2019 Scott Waddell, Oxford University, "Dopaminergic Control of Motivated Behaviour in the Fruit Fly"
2017-2018 Peter Shizgal, Concordia University, "Heretical Thoughts About the Role of Dopamine Neurons in the Quest for Rewards"
2016-2017 Eric Nestler, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, "Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression"
2015-2016 Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona, "Hippocampus: Why Memory and Space"
2013-2014 Tony Phillips, University of British Columbia, "Incentive Motivation: How a Psychological Construct Transformed Systems Neuroscience"
2012-2013 Joseph LeDoux, New York University, "Rethinking Fear"
2011-2012 Terry Robinson, University of Michigan, "Touch of Temptation: Individual Differences in the Ability to Resist Reward Cues and Implications for Addiction"
2010-2011 Peter Holland, Johns Hopkins University, "Modulation of Appetitive and Consummatory Behavior by Food Cues"
2009-2010 Roy Wise, National Institutes of Health (US), "The Dopamine Synapse; Window Between Mind and Brain"
2008-2009 Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago, "Biological Bases of Caregiver Attachment"