Professor Dorothy Russell
Dorothy Russell (1895-1983), one of the leading figures in the brief history of British neuropathology, is remembered by the Society in a biennial Memorial Lecture.
So rapid is progress in the Neurosciences and so short our memories, that for a younger generation of neuropathologists she is probably no more than a name associated with a large recently revised textbook on brain tumours. However, together with Godwin Greenfield, Dorothy Russell had a profound and lasting influence on the development and practice of Neuropathology throughout the world.
This lecture is delivered every second year by a distinguished speaker, invited to present the lecture at the annual meeting of the Society.
The Academic Committe presents nominations for agreement by the full BNS committee.
The lecturer is awarded a special medal which is engraved with their name and the date of the lecture.
Jan 1987 – Professor Lucien Rubenstein
Brain tumours
Jan 1989- Professor Sir Bernard Tomlinson
The neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease: some issues in need of resolution
Jan 1990 – Dr EP Richardson, Jr
Huntington’s disease: some new neuropathological observations
Jan 1992 – Professor Martin Raff
Control of cell survival, proliferation and differentiation in the developing mammalian central nervous system
Dec 1993 – Professor Brian H Anderton
Molecular pathology of Alzheimer’s disease – are we any closer to understanding the degenerative process?
Jan 1996 – Professor Paul Kleihues
Tumours of the nervous system: from phenotype to genotype.
Jan 1998 – Professor Tracy McIntosh
The cellular and molecular consequences of traumatic brain injury.
Sept 2000 – Dr Andrew Wiley
Apoptosis and CNS disease
Jan 2002 – Dr J Golden
Genetics of abnormal brain development.
Jan 2004 - Dr Jack Griffin
Remak’s bundle and C fibre nociception: Neuropathology of the small fibre
Jan 2006 – Professor Otmar Wiestler
The frontiers of brain tumour research.
Jan 2008 – Professor Herbert Budka
The role of the Pathologist in the investigation and diagnosis of human prion diseases.
Jan 2010 - Professor Eliezer Masliah
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and therapeutic approaches for reversing the synaptic damage in Alzheimer’s disease.
Jan 2012 - Professor Andreas von Deimling
Relevance of molecular markers for brain tumour diagnostics- the potential of mutation specific antibodies H09 (IDH1R132H) and VE1 (BRAFV600E)
Mar 2014 - Professor Douglas Smith
Tackling concussion: Neuromechanics and Neuropathology
Mar 2016 - Professor Claude Wischik
Pharmaceutical implications of the paradigm shift in understanding and treatment of late life neurodegenerative disorders
Mar 2018 - Professor Ingmar Bluncke
The challenges facing the neuropathologist in the modern era of epilepsy surgery
March 2020 - Professor Virginia Man-Yee Lee
Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Common Mechanism of Disease Progression
March 2022 - Professor Arie Perry
WHO 2021, A Diagnostic Odyssey