Our achievements
Following a long and distinguished record over many years, the School continues to provide a research home to outstanding scientists of today.
Since 2000 several former members of the School including Tim Hunt, Martin Evans, Roger Tsien, Elizabeth Blackburn and Bob Edwards have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Current staff have received many other awards including Royal Society Medals for Steve Jackson, Ron Laskey and Azim Surani and Lasker awards for John Gurdon and David Baulcombe, both recently also awarded knighthoods.
In 2010 awards included the Louis-Jeantet prize for Austin Smith and both Wolf and Harvey prizes for David Baulcombe, also recently elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Beverley Glover was awarded the Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal, Mark Field the C A Wright Memorial Medal (Parasitology) and Robin Irvine the J R Vane Medal (Pharmacology). Andrea Brand, Nicola Clayton, Roger Hardie and colleagues in affiliated institutes and other Schools were elected Fellows of the Royal Society.
In 2011 awards included the Royal Society Buchanan Medal for Steve Jackson and the Colworth Prize Lecture of the Society for General Microbiology for George Salmond. Trevor Robbins and Barry Everitt were joint recipients of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Lora Heisler won the Obesity Society Lilly Scientific Achievement Award. Christine Holt won the Remedios Caro Almela Prize for Developmental Neurobiology. Andrew Balmford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society together with several colleagues in other Schools and our Partner Institutes who were made Fellows. Nearer the end of the year Peter Leadlay was awarded the Inhoffen Medal, Usha Goswami the British Psychological Society President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge and Barry Everitt the Distinguished Achievement Award from the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.
In the 2012 New Year's Honours Trevor Robbins has been awarded a CBE for services to medical research.