Plenary Lectures

The Chester Beatty Lecture

Seoul, Korea	2018	Feng Shao, USA
Seville, Spain	2012	Kazutoshi Mori, Japan
Shanghai, China	2009	Victor Ambros, USA
Kyoto, Japan	2006	T. W. Mak, Canada
Birmingham, England	2000	S. Cory, Australia
San Francisco, USA	1997	S. Nagata, Japan
New Delhi, India	1994	M. Salas, Spain
Jerusalem, Israel	1991	P. Berg, USA
Prague, Czech Republic	1988	T. Murachi, Japan
Amsterdam, Netherlands	1985	T. Sugimura, Japan
Perth, Australia	1982	P. Leder, USA
Toronto, Canada	1979	P. Handler, USA

A profile of Chester Beatty

Alfred Chester Beatty was a brilliant British businessman who was the Chairman of Selection Trust Ltd., sold at the time of his retirement for a sum said to have represented the largest financial transaction in British commercial history.

His father, of the same name, is much better known, through the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute in London and the Chester Beatty Art Gallery in Dublin. Chester Beatty Sr made his own fortune out of mining precious metals and the son expanded on this using scientific exploration techniques that led to an increased rate of discovery of precious metal deposits.

He had a great love of horses and was a master of foxhounds. And an art connoisseur. Van Gogh painted several copies of the Sunflowers. Chester Beatty bought one in the early 1930s for a few thousand pounds. When it was sold, after Mr. Beatty’s death, it achieved a record for the sale price of any painting up to that date.

His interest in the precious metals led him into biochemistry where he became fascinated with the Krebs™ Cycle and carried out theoretical investigations which convinced him that Krebs was wrong on a certain number of points. W. J. Whelan, then General Secretary of the IUB, was introduced to Mr. Beatty via his physician and got to know him quite well such that in 1978 Mr. Beatty gave the IUB a sum of money that permanently endowed the Chester Beatty Plenary Lecture, given at each IUB/IUBMB Congress since 1979.

IUBMB Plenary Lectures at Regional Organization Meetings

Lisbon, Portugal	2022	Sarah Teichman, UK
Ljubljana (virtual)	2021	Hermona Soreq, Israel
Debrecen, Hungary	2019	Martha Cyert, USA
Krakow, Poland	2019	Csaba Szabo, Switzerland
Seoul, Korea	2018	Narry Kim, Korea
Prague, Czech Republic	2018	Martin Jinek, Switzerland
Jerusalem, Israel	2017	Feng Zhang, USA
Miami, USA	2017	Bruce Spiegelman, USA
Vancouver, Canada	2016	Nahum Sonenberg, Canada
Miami, USA	2016	Charles Serhan, USA
Berlin, Germany	2015	Xiaowei Zhuang, USA
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	Martin Chalfie, USA
Taipei	2014	Greg Petsko, USA
Puerto Varas, Chile	2013	Guy Salveson, UK
Marrakech, Morocco	2013	Patrice Courvalin, France
Seville, Spain	2012	Tim Hunt, UK
Mérida, Mexico	2011	Richard Flavell, USA
Naples, Italy	2011	Konrad Sandhoff, Germany
Torino, Italy	2011	John Mattick, AUS
Gothenburg, Sweden	2010	Susan Lindquist, USA
Prague, Czech Republic	2009	Tom Blundell, UK
Athens, Greece	2008	Naoyuki Taniguchi, Japan
Hanoi, Vietnam	2008	Robert Huber, Germany
Vienna, Austria	2007	Angelika Amon, USA
Bangalore, India	2003	Dieter Söll, USA

The IUBMB Life Lecture

(inaugurated: 2006 in Kyoto)

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	Salvador Moncada, UK
Seville, Spain	2012	Sai-Juan Chen, China
Shanghai, China	2009	Kurt Wüthrich, Switzerland
Kyoto, Japan	2006	G. Hart, USA

The PABMB Lecture

(inaugurated: 1997 in San Francisco)

Lisbon, Portugal	2022	Jerson L. Silva, Brazil
Montreal, Canada	2003	A. Kornblihtt, Argentina
Birmingham, England	2000	L. Herrera-Estrelia; Mexico
San Francisco, USA	1997	A. Parodi, Argentina

Osamu Hayaishi Lecture

Seoul, Korea	2018	John Hardy, UK
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	José Onuchic, USA
Seville, Spain	2012	Ferid Murad, USA

Feodor Lynen Lecture

Miami, USA	2019	Robert Gallo, USA
Miami, USA	2018	Joshua Hare, USA
Miami, USA	2016	Arlene Sharpe, USA
Miami, USA	2012	Robert Langer, USA
Miami, USA	2012	George Whitesides, USA
Mérida, Mexico	2011	Joan Massagué, USA

Edward Wood Lecture

Seville, Spain

2012

Bruce Alberts, USA

Severo Ochoa Lecture

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	Kurt Wüthrich, USA
Seville, Spain	2012	Carlos Bustamante, USA
Montreal, Canada	2003	Jean-Marc Egly, France

EC Slater Lecture

Lisbon, Portugal	2022	Costantino Iadecola, USA
Seoul, Korea	2018	Craig Thompson, USA
Vancouver, Canada	2016	Alexandra Newton, USA
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	Tom Steitz, USA
Seville, Spain	2012	Robert Huber, Germany

Kunio Yagi Lecture

Lisbon, Portugal	2022	Masayuki Yamamoto, Japan
Seoul, Korea	2018	Aaron Ciechanover, Israel
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil	2015	Johann Deisenhofer, USA/Germany
Mérida, Mexico	2011	Scott Lowe, USA