The Norman Weiner Lecture was established in memory of Dr. Norman Weiner, past ASPET President and chair of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Colorado. It is in honor of his many contributions to both ASPET and to pharmacology research and education.

Dr. Weiner, President of ASPET from 1986–1987, served ASPET in many capacities, including chair of the Board of Publications Trustees, councilor, and secretary/treasurer. Despite suffering a debilitating stroke in 1987 while chairing a meeting for ASPET, he returned to his professorship at the University of Colorado and with the help of his devoted wife, Diana, faithfully attended every ASPET meeting until his death in 2009.

The Norman Weiner Lecture is selected by the ASPET Program Committee and is presented in odd-numbered years.

2025 Norman Weiner Lecture

David R. Sibley, PhD, FASPET
NIH/NINDS
Searching for Selectivity: The Identification of Novel Modulators for Targeting Dopaminergic Signaling

The 2025 Norman Weiner Lecture will be presented on Thursday, July 24 at 12:00 pm ET. Register here. 

Past Norman Weiner Lectures

2023

Daniela Salvemini, PhD, FASPET
Saint Louis University Medical School
A Voyage Through the Galaxy of GPCRs Discovers Novel Stars for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain

2021

Margarita L. Dubocovich
University at Buffalo
Cycle of Discovery: Neuropharmacology of Melatonin Receptors and Circadian Rhythms

2019

Mary Vore
University of Kentucky
Cancer Chemotherapy, Oxidative Stress and ATP-Dependent Efflux Transporters

2017

Jack Bergman, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital
Drug Discrimination Procedures and in Vivo Pharmacological Analysis

2015

William A. Catterall, University of Washington
Structural Basis for Function and Pharmacology of Voltage-Gated Sodium and Calcium Channels 

2013

David E. Clapham, Boston Children’s Hospital, HHMI
Novel Ion Channels and their Regulation 

2011

Robert J. Lefkowitz, Duke University, HHMI
Seven Transmembrane Receptors: Something Old, Something New 

2009

Saloman Z. Langer, Euthymia, Ltd
Lecture held at University of Colorado