| 2026 | Prof. Charalampos Kalodimos St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, USA |
| 2023 | Dr. Yusuke Nishiyama NM Business Unit & RIKEN-JEOL Collaboration Center, JAPAN |
| 2022 | Prof. Akira Naito Yokohama National University, JAPAN |
| 2020 | Prof. Lucia Banci CERM, Florence, ITALY Prof. Gianluigi Veglia Univ. of Minnesota, USA |
| 2018 | Prof. Peter Güntert Frankfurt University, GERMANY |
| 2017 | Prof. Matthias Ernst ETH, Zürich, SWITZERLAND Prof. Norbert Müller Johannes Kepler University, AUSTRIA |
| 2016 | Prof. Raymond Norton Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, AUSTRALIA |
| 2015 | Prof. Gerhard Wagner Harvard University, USA |
| 2014 | Prof. Stefan Grzesiek University of Basel, SWITZERLAND |
| 2013 | Prof. Hartmut Oschkinat Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin, GERMANY Prof. Jean-Paul Amoureux Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, FRANCE |
| 2012 | Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Spiess Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, GERMANY Prof. Clare Grey University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2011 | Prof. Lyndon Emsley EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND |
| 2010 | Prof. Lucio Frydman Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL |
| 2009 | Prof. Masatsune Kainosho (Deceased) Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, JAPAN Prof. Christian Griesinger Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, GERMANY Prof. Horst Kessler Technische Universität München, Munich, GERMANY Prof. Bernhard Blumich RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, GERMANY |
| 2008 | Prof. David G. Gadian Institute of Child Health, London, UK Prof. Jeremy K. Nicholson Murdoch University, Perth, AUSTRALIA Prof. Robert G. Griffin Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 2007 | Prof. Shimon Vega (Deceased) Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL Prof. Ivano Bertini (Deceased) CERM, Florence, ITALY |
| 2006 | Prof. Erwin Hahn (Deceased) University of California, Berkeley, USA Prof. Ray Freeman (Deceased) Jesus College, Cambridge, UK Prof. John S. Waugh (Deceased) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Peter Mansfield (Deceased) University of Nottingham, UK |
| 2005 | Prof. Seiji Ogawa Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Tokyo, JAPAN Prof. Alfred Guillou Redfield (Deceased) Brandeis University Massachusetts, USA |
| 2004 | Sir Chris Martin Dobson (Deceased) Cambridge University, UK Prof. Heinz J. Rüterjans (Deceased) Biozentrum, Frankfurt, GERMANY |
| 2003 | Prof. Geoffrey Bodenhausen EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND Prof. Malcolm H. Levitt Southampton University, UK Prof. Stanley J. Opella University of California, San Diego, USA |
| 2002 | Dr. Ad Bax National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA |
| 2001 | Prof. Jack H. Freed University of Cornell, Ithaca, USA |
| 2000 | Prof. Robert Kaptein Bijvoet Centre Utrecht University, The Netherlands Prof. Ian C.P. Smith (Deceased) Institute for Biodiagnostics National Research Council, Manitoba, Canada Prof. John R. Pilbrow Monash University, Victoria, Australia |
| 1999 | Prof. Kazuyuki Akasaka Kobe University, Japan Prof. Alexander Pines (Deceased) University of California Berkeley, U.S.A. Prof. Paul Christian Lauterbur (Deceased) University of Illinois, U.S.A. |
| 1998 | Prof. Richard Robert Ernst (Deceased) ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND Prof. Kurt Wüthrich ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND Prof. Edwin D. Becker (Deceased) National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, U.S.A. |