History of Medicine Award 2026

At this event our award finalists deliver short 15 minute talks.

The recipient of the 2026 History of Medicine Award was Dr Xinyi Wen.

Our finalists were: 
Sudarshana Banerjee, Incorporation and Marginalization: Medical Knowledge-Making, Power and the Politics of Knowledge Circulation during the Company Era 
Dr Xinyi Wen, The Doctrine of Signatures: A Reversed History, 1896-1584 
Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy, Moral Medicine: Health Activism, Human Rights and the Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment in Colonial Trinidad

This award was funded through the generosity of The Joyce Grainger Charitable Trust.