Jack Feldman, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been chosen to deliver the Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture for 2017 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the physiological sciences.
Presented biennially by the London-based Physiological Society to a physiologist working outside the United Kingdom, the honor comes with a prize of £1,000. A member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, Feldman has made fundamental contributions to understanding basic mechanisms underlying the neural control of breathing. His laboratory’s work draws from a wealth of interdisciplinary expertise in neuroscience, molecular biology and genetics.
Feldman will present his lecture to the International Union of Physiological Sciences in Brazil in August 2017; The Journal of Physiology will also publish the transcript.
Feldman has received many awards and honors, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (1990); the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting Neuroscientist Lecturer from the University of Toronto (2006); Fellow, Julius H. Comroe Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the American Physiological Society (1995); Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009); and Society for Neuroscience Special Lecturer (2003, 2016).