The Ellison–Cliffe Lecture is held annually by the
Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) is a medical society based at 1 Wimpole Street, London, UK. It is a registered charity, with admission through membership. Its Chief Executive is Michele Acton.
History
The Royal Society of Medicine (R ...
. The lecture series, which commenced in 1987 is named after Percy Cliffe and his wife,
Carice Ellison, who endowed the lecture to be given on a subject connected with the contribution of fundamental science to the advancement of medicine.
The Lecturer is also awarded a medal in honour for their presentation.
The Lectures
* 1987 Sir
Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936) is a German-born British human geneticist.
Early life
Bodmer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos at the Univ ...
, ''on Genetics and Cancer''
* 1988
Charles D. Marsden
* 1989 Dame
Anne McLaren
Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, (26 April 1927 – 7 July 2007) was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology. She paved the way for women in science and her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation ...
, ''on human conceptus''
* 1990 Sir
Roy Calne
Sir Roy Yorke Calne (30 December 1930 – 6 January 2024) was a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. He was part of the team that performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, the world's first liver, ...
* 1991 Lord
George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
Education and early life
Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West ...
* 1992 Sir Joseph Smith, ''on the Threat of new Infectious Diseases''
* 1993 Sir
Colin Blakemore
Sir Colin Blakemore (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced S ...
* 1994 Sir
James Black
* 1995
Dennis Lincoln
* 1996
Roger H. Clarke, ''on Managing Radiation Risks''
* 1997
John Newsom-Davis
* 1998
Marcus Pembrey
* 1999 William P. Gray
* 2000
Richard Frackowiak
* 2001
A. Riley
* 2002
A. Smith
* 2003
Stephen T. Holgate CBE
* 2004 Dame
Julia Polak, ''on embryonic stem cells and tissue engineering''
* 2005
Iain Hutchison
* 2006
Jill Belch, ''Blood vessels: Not merely plumbing''
* 2007
Tony Ryan
Thomas Anthony Ryan (2 February 1936 – 3 October 2007) was an Irish billionaire businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Ryanair in 1984 along with cofounders Christopher Ryan and Liam Lonergan (owner of Irish travel agent Club Travel), ...
, ''on nanotechnology and the quest for motility''
* 2008
Chris Lavy
* 2009
Andy Adam
* 2010
Hugh Montgomery
* 2011
Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...
, ''Neural Interfaces: An experimental tour''
* 2012
Kevin Fong
Kevin Jeremy San Yoong Fong (born 21 May 1971)Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 atabase on-line Provo, Utah, US: Ancestry.com Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. ...
, ''on Medicine for Mars''
* 2013
Philip Beales
* 2014 Michael Hastings, ''on circadian body clocks''
* 2015
Paul Freemont, ''life is what you make it''
* 2016
Carl Philpott, ''Smell and taste - the senses that man forgot''
* 2017
Charles Swanton, ''Cancer evolution through space and time - The challenge of prolonging survival''
* 2018
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman (born 1984) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-fou ...
, ''How AI is going to impact healthcare in the future''
* 2019
Guy Leschziner, ''Sleep medicine''
* 2021
Mark Lythgoe
Mark Lythgoe is Professor of Biomedical Imaging and Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, based at University College London (UCL). He has published over 300 papers including publications in Nature, Nature Phot ...
, ''The limits of perception: advances in biomedical imaging''
* 2024
Christopher Bishop
Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director oMicrosoft Research AI4Science He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and ...
, ''Artificial intelligence in science and medicine''
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See also
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List of medicine awards
This list of medicine awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to medicine, the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. The list is organized by region and c ...
References
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Annual events in London
Awards established in 1987
British lecture series
British science and technology awards
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Royal Society of Medicine
Recurring events established in 1987
1987 establishments in the United Kingdom