Mendel Lecturers
Since 2006 the European Human Genetics Conference closes with the lecture of a distinguished speaker.
In 2009 this lecture was officially named "Mendel Lecture" and a prize symbolising a guilded wrinkled pea, in reference to Gregor Mendel's research, is awarded to the lecturer. The prize was designed by Swedish geneticist Alicia Bergsten.
ESHG Mendel Lecturers
| 2023 | Shankar Balasubramanian | |
| 2022 | Jay Shendure | see lecture |
| 2021 | Dennis Lo | see lecture |
| 2020 | Aviv Regev | |
| 2019 | Craig Venter | see lecture |
| 2018 | Emanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Laureate 2020 | |
| 2017 | George M. Church | see lecture |
| 2016 | Sir Adrian P. Bird | |
| 2015 | Thomas Südhof, Nobel Laureate 2013 | see lecture |
| 2014 | Mario Capecchi, Nobel Laureate 2007 | see lecture |
| 2013 | Huda Zoghbi | |
| 2012 | Evan Eichler | |
| 2011 | Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Nobel Laureate 2009 | |
| 2010 | Mary Claire King | |
| 2009 | Sir John Burn | |
| 2008 | Leroy Hood | |
| 2007 | Aaron J. Ciechanover, Nobel Laureate 2004 | |
| 2006 | Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate 2002 |