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Read more at: Royal Society Mullard Award 2020
Prof Steve Jackson

Royal Society Mullard Award 2020

Professor Jackson receives the award for his pioneering research on DNA repair mechanisms and synthetic lethality that led to the discovery of olaparib, which has reached...


Read more at: Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020
Hansong Ma (bottom right) and her research group

Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020

The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise "the...


Read more at: The George W. Beadle Award
Professor Julie Ahringer of the Gurdon Institute

The George W. Beadle Award

The Genetics Society of America honours outstanding contributions to genetics with a series of annual awards.

The George W. Beadle Award 2020 specifically recognises Professor Ahringer’s “development of critical tools and key...


Read more at: The BINDER Innovation Prize 2019

The BINDER Innovation Prize 2019

Meri Huch received the BINDER Innovation Prize 2019 during a ceremony at the Fall Conference of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ), in Tübingen, Germany. 

The...


Read more at: Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel Award in Translational and Clinical Research
Prof Steve Jackson, Gurdon Institute, Cambridge

Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel Award in Translational and Clinical Research

Professor Steve Jackson receives the award "for his work on DNA damage repair and his role in the development of medicines such as PARP1 and 2 inhibitors used [for] cancer treatment."

The Fondation ARC Léopold Griffuel Award is...


Read more at: EMBO Young Investigator

EMBO Young Investigator

The European Molecular Biology Organization has selected 26 life science researchers who are recently appointed group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators. The accepted candidates are offered access to a range of benefits during...


Read more at: Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Tony Kouzarides

Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences


Read more at: Azim Surani to receive the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award for his work on mammalian genomic imprinting
Azim Surani in his lab at the Gurdon Institute

Azim Surani to receive the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award for his work on mammalian genomic imprinting

Professor Surani receives the award alongside Davor Solter (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics), “for their discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its...


Read more at: Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal 2018
Dr Meritxell Huch

Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal 2018

Dr Huch is researching the replicative potential of adult stem cells during tissue regeneration and disease. Her focus is liver and pancreas cells, creating organoids from stem cells in order to multiply tissue from small samples. In a...


Read more at: The 2016 Heineken Prize for Medicine

The 2016 Heineken Prize for Medicine

The Heineken Prizes are awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). There are five prizes of $200,000 each, in the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Environmental Sciences, Cognitive Science and...