The GlaxoSmithKline Prize and Lecture is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences published within ten years from the date of the award". Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline

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, the medal is awarded with a gift of £2500. The medal was first awarded in 1980 to César Milstein

César Milstein

César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...

 "in recognition of his pioneering the production of monoclonal antibodies from hybrid cell lines and initiating their application worldwide in many fields of biology and medicine", and has since been awarded 13 times.

List of recipients

Year	Name	Rationale	Notes
1980	César Milstein César Milstein César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...	"in recognition of his pioneering the production of monoclonal antibodies from hybrid cell lines and initiating their application worldwide in many fields of biology and medicine"	—
1982	Hans Kosterlitz	"in recognition of his studies of the action of opiates and the discovery of the enkephalins"	—
1984	Edward Raymond Andrew, James M. S. Hutchison, John Mallard John Mallard John Mallard OBE FRSE was Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Aberdeen from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. He is known for his and his colleague's work in the development of radionuclide imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and, in particular, positron emission tomography...  and Peter Mansfield Peter Mansfield Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI...	"in recognition of their development of NMR imaging as a diagnostic tool in medicine"	—
1986	Donald Metcalf Donald Metcalf Emeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne...  and Leo Sachs Leo Sachs Leo Sachs is a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952...	"in recognition of their discovery of factors which regulate growth and differentiation in normal and leukaemic blood-forming tissue"	—
1988	Louis Kunkel	"in recognition of his achievement in identifying by novel techniques of reverse genetics the biochemical abnormality responsible for Ducheme/Becker muscular dystrophy as being the absence of a previously unknown protein, dystrophin"	—
1990	Philippa Marrack Philippa Marrack Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with...  and John Kappler John Kappler John W. Kappler is a professor in the Department of Integrated Immunology at National Jewish Health. His principal research is in T cell biology, a subject he collaborates on with his wife Philippa Marrack...	"in recognition of their seminal contributions to T-cell biology, which include the characterisation of the T-cell receptor; the demonstration that self-tolerance is caused by clonal elimination in the thymus; and the discovery that bacterial toxins act as 'superantigens'"	—
1992	Paul Nurse Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R...	"in recognition of his seminal contributions to the understanding of the molecular basis of regulation of the eukaryotic cycle"	—
1994	David Barker David Barker David Barker may refer to:* David Barker, Jr., U.S. Representative from New Hampshire* David Barker * David Barker , English cricketer-See also:*Dave Barker, singer*David Barker Stevenson, businessman...	"in recognition of his singularly novel and important contributions to our understanding of the causes of a number of the major diseases of later life (cardiovascular disease, obstructive airways disease and diabetes) by demonstrating that their origins may lie in fetal nutrition and in growth in utero and during infancy"	—
1996	Charles Weissmann Charles Weissmann Charles Weissmann is a Hungarian-born Swiss molecular biologist.Weissmann went to Zurich University and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and...	"in recognition of his work on prion diseases which lead to the remarkable advances in understanding the molecular biology of spongiform encephalopathies"	—
1998	Gillian Bates Gillian Bates Gillian Patricia Bates FMedSci FRS is a British biologist. She is distinguished for her research into the molecular basis of Huntington's disease. As of 2009, she is Professor of Neurogenetics in the Medical and Molecular Genetics Department of King's College London.-Research:Bates's research has...  and Stephen Davies	"in recognition of their discovery of the cause of Huntington's Disease, a dominantly inherited, late onset, fatal neurodegenerative disease"	—
2000	David MacLennan David MacLennan David H MacLennan, OC, OOnt, FRSC, FRS is a Canadian biochemist and geneticist known for his basic work on proteins that regulate calcium flux through the sarcoplasmic reticulum , thereby regulating muscle contraction and relaxation, and for his discoveries in the field of muscle diseases caused...	"in recognition of his work on calcium regulatory proteins, particularly in the understanding of malignant hyperthermia (MH), central core disease (CCD), Brody disease and phospholamban, and applying his knowledge of the gene in MH to develop accurate diagnosis of disease in pigs. In addition to its valuable veterinary application, this work represents a particularly good example of the way in which basic science has been developed to the point at which it is widely applied"	—
2003	Michael Neuberger Michael Neuberger Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS is a British biochemist and immunologist.-Education:He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.-Career:He has...	"in recognition of his work on resolving the molecular mechanism of somatic antibody diversification, a key feature of immune response, with consequences reaching far beyond immunology to DNA instability and cancer"	—
2005	Nicholas White Nicholas White Sir Nicholas White was an Irish lawyer and government official during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Background and early career:...	"for his outstanding work on the treatment and prevention of serious diseases within the developing world"	—
2007	Mark Pepys Mark Pepys Mark Brian Pepys FRS is Professor of Medicine at University College London and English Head of Medicine at the Hampstead Campus and the Royal Free Hospital...	"for his excellent work as a clinical scientist who has identified specific proteins as new therapeutic targets and developed novel drugs with potential use in amyloidosis, Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular disease"	—
2010	Stephen Craig West	"in recognition of his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination and DNA repair and their relation to tumorigenesis"