Salvador Moncada - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

Moncada is an elected member of a number of international scientific societies. These include: Fellow of The Royal Society (1988); Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1994); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (1994) and Honorary Fellow of University College London (1999).

He has received honorary degrees from more than twenty universities, including Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA (1995); Degree of Doctor “Honoris Causa” of the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France (1997) and Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2000).

His prizes and distinguished lectures include: The VIII Gaddum Memorial Lecture, British Pharmacological Society (1980); The Ulf von Euler Memorial Lecture, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1991); The Paul Dudley White Lecture, American Heart Association, Anaheim, California, USA (1991); The Royal Medal of The Royal Society, UK (1994); The Gregory Pincus Memorial Lecture, The Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts, USA (1996); The Louis and Artur Lucian Award (jointly with Prof. R. Furchgott), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1997); The Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture, from The Physiological Society, UK (2000); The Gold Medal of The Royal Society of Medicine, UK (2000); Le Grand Prix Annuel Lefoulon-Delalande, from the Institut de France, France (2002); The Croonian Lecture, The Royal Society, London, UK (2005) and The Dohme Lecture, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (2010).

In January 2010 he was awarded a Knighthood for Services to Science. In 2013 he was awarded Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine (Ernst Jung Prize).