Grossman Lecturers are chosen by the SNS President, in consultation with the Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair, and approved by the SNS Executive Council. Grossman Lecturers are non-neurosurgeons who exemplify creativity and high achievement in neuroscience and allied fields.
| 2012 |
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Frans de Waal, PhD: Empathy in Primates |
| 2013 |
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Margaret Livingstone, PhD: What Art Tells Us about the Brain |
| 2014 |
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Allan Basbaum, PhD: Dorsal Horn Cell Transplant |
| 2015 |
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Marc Diamond, MD: Prion Biology of the Tau Protein––Implications for Common Neurodegenerative Disease |
| 2016 |
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Olaf Sporns, PhD: Human Connectomics--New Tools and Approaches for Mapping the Brain |
| 2017 |
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Henry Marsh, CBE, FRCS: Do No Harm |
| 2018 |
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Howard Fields, MD, PhD: Brain Circuits for Opioid Analgesia and Reward |
| 2019 |
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Leland H. Hartwell, PhD: Experiencing Science Fred Hutchinson Canier Research Center |
| 2020 |
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Not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021 |
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Michael J. Kahana, MD |
| 2022 |
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Mark Griswold, PhD |
| 2023 |
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Michael K. Rosen, PhD: Like Oil from Water: How the Cell Interior is Organized by Phase Separation |
| 2024 |
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Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD: Genetics and Neurosurgical Diseases: Prospects for Mechanisms, Prevention and Therapy
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| 2025 |
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David Huang, MD, PhD: Optical Coherence Tomography: Seeing Small & Aiming Big
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