EVENTS

INF Is Involved In A Number Of Scientific Meetings

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SCHOOLS
HARRIS LECTURES

EVENTS

INF Is Involved In A Number Of Scientific Meetings

NEXT MEETING
SCHOOLS
HARRIS LECTURES

NEXT INF MEETING

ICN 2026 - The 11th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology, July 26-29, 2026

PROGRAM

Ghrelin/LEAP2 - July 25 2026

PROGRAM

Kisspeptin - July 23-25, 2026

PROGRAM

MEMBER SOCIETY MEETINGS

4th BSN-SNE Joint Meeting of Neuroendocrinology

The congress will last 3 full days, from the 22nd to the 24th of September 2021, and will be entirely online. The scientific program elaborated by both the SNE’s and BSN’s scientific committees includes 4 plenary lectures and 4 symposia. The objective of the meeting is to highlight recent advances in Neuroendocrinology with the best specialists in the field.

PROGRAM

PREVIOUS INF MEETINGS

10th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

7-10 August, 2022

SEC Glasgow, Scotland

9th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

15-18 July, 2018

The Westin Harbour CastleToronto, ON, Canada

8th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

August 17-20, 2014

Hilton Hotel, Sydney, Australia

7th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 11-15, 2010

Law Faculty, Rouen, Normandy, France

6th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

June 19-22, 2006

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

5th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

August 31-September 4, 2002

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

4th International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

October 1998

Kitakyushu, Japan

3rd International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 3-8, 1994

Budapest, Hungary

2nd International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

June 24-29, 1990

Bordeaux, France

1st International Congress of Neuroendocrinology

July 9-11, 1986

San Francisco, California, USA

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

The 4th International School of Neuroendocrinology, New Zealand - 2014
The 3rd International School of Neuroendocrinology, Brazil - 2011
The 2nd International School of Neuroendocrinology, Japan - 2009
The 1st International School of Neuroendocrinology, France - 2007

INF Geoffrey Harris Memorial Lectures

This lecture series commemorates Geoffrey Wingfield Harris, FRS (1913-1971), the ‘father’ of neuroendocrinology. Harris showed through a series of elegant experiments that ‘the hypothalamo-hypophysial portal vasculature is necessary for the maintenance and control of normal activity of the anterior pituitary’, contrasting this mechanism with the direct neural control of the posterior pituitary. He proposed that ‘of the many possibilities’ to explain these effects ‘the most likely seems to be that nerve fibres from the hypothalamus liberate some humoral substance(s) into the capillaries of the primary plexus in the median eminence and that this substance is carried by the portal vessels to excite or inhibit the cells of the pars distalis’ (Harris GW, 1955; Neural Control of the Pituitary Gland. Monographs of the Physiological Society 3, London: Edward Arnold, 298pp). The Geoffrey Harris Memorial Lectureship, first awarded in 1974 to Sawyer in New Delhi, was the highest honour of the International Society for Neuroendocrinology (ISN) and continues to be recognized in this manner by the International Neuroendocrine Federation (INF) which succeeded the ISN when it was dissolved in 2000. The honour recognises major contributions by the lecturer to the advancement of knowledge in neuroendocrinology. The INF Executive Board nominates the Lecturer from up to three names suggested in consultation with the Program and Local Organising Committees of the International Congress of Neuroendocrinology. The INF provides an honorarium for the lecturer. Lecturers CH Sawyer (USA) 1974
R Guillemin (USA) 1976
BT Donovan (UK) 1977
B Flerko (Hungary) 1979
SM McCann (USA) 1980
J Meites (USA) 1981
E Knobil (USA) 1982
WW Vale (USA) 1984
KJ Catt (USA) 1985
T Hokfelt (Sweden) 1986
S Nakanishi (Japan) 1988
L Martini (Italy) 1990
B Halasz (Hungary) 1992
D deWied (Netherlands) 1994
M Palkovits (Hungary) 1998
MG Rosenfeld (USA) 2002
RP Millar (Rep S Africa) 2006
IJ Clarke (Australia) 2011
TM Plant (USA) 2014
Jeffrey Friedman (USA) 2018
Rae Silver (USA) 2022