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An important feature of the conference is the presentation
of the annual Founders' Lecture. The Lecture is our opportunity to honor
individuals who have a made a sustained and substantial contribution to the
science upon which the conference is based.
We are using the term 'Founder' in
two ways. This award is intended to honor the scientific integrity and vision of
our society's founders by choosing a speaker representing those ideals. In
addition, the individual lecturers are also founders in the sense that they have
helped create the intellectual foundation of our current thinking. The speaker
is given wide latitude, but our hope is that he or she will use this opportunity
to give a personal answer to the questions, "how did we get here and where
should we be going next?".
After the nomination from the INRC membership,
the Executive Committee selected the following Annual Founders' Lecturers:
2008
"Love for endorphins and beyond"
presented by
Prof. Jan M. van Ree
Chair, Neuroscience Research Programme
UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
2007 (Two Awardees)
1) "Regulation of opioid peptides and opioid receptors"
presented by Professor Dr. Volker Hoellt (on the right in picture
below)
Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
2) "Our search for the 'Ideal Analgesic' in pain treatment"
presented by Dr. Horace H. Loh (on the left in picture below)
Frederick Stark Professor & Head
Department of Pharmacology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
2006 (Two Awardees)
"The Dawn of Endorphins"
presented by
Huda Akil and Stan Watson
Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
 
2005
"Hypothesis to Pharmacotherapy - Endorphin System to
Functional SNPs of Opioid Genes: An INRC Odyssey
1964-2005"
presented by
Mary Jeanne Kreek
Laboratory on the Biology of Addictive Diseases
The Rockefeller University
New York, NY, USA
2004
"Acupuncture, Endogenous Opioids and Anti-opioids"
presented by
Ji-Sheng Han
Neuroscience Research Center
Beijing Medical University
Beijing, China
2003
"A Race in the Opioid Pathway!"
presented by
Bernard Roques
Professor, Vice-President &
Scientific Director
PharmaLeads, Paris, France
2002
"Opioid Peptides, the Extended Family"
presented by
Lars Terenius
Center for Molecular Medicine
Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
2001
"From Models to Molecules in Opioid Research"
presented by
Philip S. Portoghese
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
2000
"1965 - 1975: A Renaissance Decade in Opiate Research"
presented by
Brian M. Cox
Department of Pharmacology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA
1999
"Personal Reflections about INRC and Opioid Research"
presented by
Eric J. Simon
Department of Pharmacology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA
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