Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.

Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., the Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology and director of the Yale Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, received the Annual Review Prize, the premier award of the British Physiological Society, in July. Waxman is being honored for his research on sodium channels and their roles in multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and neuropathic pain. Waxman delivered the Annual Review Prize Lecture, titled “Fire, Fantoms and Fugu: Sodium Channels From Squid to Clinic,” at the annual meeting of the Physiological Society in Dublin, in July.