Below is a list of our esteemed TY Shen Lecturers.
- 2023–2024 Cynthia Burrows (University of Utah)
- 2022–2023 Hiroaki Suga (PhD V ’94) (University of Tokyo)
- 2018–2019 Jonathan Weissman (PhD VIII ’93) (UCSF)
- 2017–2018 J. Martin Bollinger (PhD V ’93) (Penn State University)
- 2016–2017 Ulrich Hartl (Max-Planck-Institute für Biochemie)
- 2015–2016 Suzanne Walker (Harvard University)
- 2014–2015 Donald Hilvert (ETH Zürich)
- 2013–2014 Carlos Bustamante (UC Berkeley)
- 2012–2013 Squire Booker (PhD V ’94) (Penn State University)
- 2011–2012 Christopher Dobson (University of Cambridge)
- 2010–2011 Judith Klinman (UC Berkeley)
- 2009–2010 Stephen Benkovic (Penn State University)
- 2008–2009 Vern Schramm (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
- 2007–2008 Peter Walter (UCSF)
- 2006–2007 Rudolf Thauer (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology)
- 2005–2006 Michael Marletta (UC Berkeley)
- 2004–2005 Carolyn Bertozzi (UC Berkeley)
- 2003–2004 Barry Honig (Columbia University)
- 2002–2003 Rowena Matthews (University of Michigan)
- 2001–2002 Cecile Pickart (Johns Hopkins University)
- 2000–2001 Douglas Rees (Caltech)
- 1999–2000 Gregory Petsko (Brandeis University)
- 1998–1999 Thomas Ellenberger (Washington University in St. Louis)
- 1997–1998 Gerald Joyce (Scripps Research Institute)
- 1996–1997 Stuart Schreiber (Harvard University)
- 1995–1996 Perry Frey (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- 1994–1995 Peter Schultz (UC Berkeley)
- 1993–1994 Thomas Cech (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- 1991–1992 Christopher Walsh (Harvard Medical School)
- 1986–1987 Bert Vallee (Harvard Medical School)
- 1984–1985 Sidney Hecht (University of Virginia)
- 1983–1984 Robert Abeles (Brandeis University)
- 1981–1982 Jeremy Knowles (Harvard University)
- 1980–1981 Koji Nakanishi (Columbia University)
- 1979–1980 Heinz Floss (Purdue University)