Honours and Awards
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Principal Investigators in the College of Life Sciences have been recognised for the excellence of their research by the award of a number of international and national prizes and honorary degrees and by their election to eminent scientific societies. In addition two members of the School, Philip Cohen and David Lane were knighted by the queen in 1998 and 2000 respectively for their contributions to science. |
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International Science Prizes awarded since 1990
1991 The University of Helsinki 50th Anniversary Medal (Geoffrey Codd)
1992 The Prix van Gysel of the Belgian Royal Academies of Medicine (Philip Cohen)
1993 The Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Award for Cancer Research, Switzerland (David Lane)
1993 The Joseph Steiner Prize, Berne, Switzerland (David Lane)
1993 The Jan Walderstrom Medal (David Lane)
1993 Howard Hughes International Scholarships (David Lane and Mike Ferguson)
1994 The Medal of the Swedish Society of Oncology (David Lane)
1994 The Gold Medal of G. Mendel of the Czech Academy of Sciences (David Lilley)
1994 The Prix Yvette Mayent from the Institut Curie, Paris, France (David Lane)
1995 The Yvette Mayent Prize, Paris, France (David Lane)
1995 The Black Prize Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, USA (David Lane)
1995 The Mayenberg Preis, Heidelberg, Germany (David Lane)
1996 The Prelog Medal in Stereochemistry, Zurich, Switzerland (David Lilley)
1996 Special Achievement Award, Miami Biotechnology Winter Symposium, USA (Philip Cohen)
1997 The Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland (Philip Cohen)
1997 The Datta Medal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (Philip Cohen)
1998 The Paul Ehrlich Prize, Frankfurt, Germany (David Lane)
1998 The Tom Conners Prize Lecture, Dublin (David Lane)
1999 The Pfizer Award for Innovative Science in Europe (Philip Cohen)
1999 The International Glycoconjugate Prize, Tokyo, Japan (Mike Ferguson)
2000 The Eppendorf European Young Investigator of the Year, Germany (Dario Alessi)
2000 EMBO Young Investigator (Tom Owen-Hughes)
2000 EMBO Young Investigator (Tomo Tanaka)
2001 The Sir Hans Krebs Medal of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (Philip Cohen)
2002 Award of Excellence, Physiological Society of America (John Raven)
2002 The G.B. Morgagni Young Investigator Prize, Italy (Dario Alessi)
2002 The Pfizer Academic Award for Europe (Dario Alessi)
2002 The Bristol Myers Squibb Distinguished Achievement Award in Metabolic Research, USA (Philip Cohen)
2003 The Federation of Biochemical Societys' Anniversary Prize for Outstanding Achievement (Dario Alessi)
2003 EU Descartes Prize (Colin Watts)
2004 The Women in Cell Biology Junior Award, American Society for Cell Biology (Inke Nathke)
2004 The Charles Thom Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology (Geoff Gadd)
2004 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary (Philip Cohen)
2005 International Agency for Research on Cancer Medal of Honor (David Lane)
2005 Sergio Lombroso Award for Cancer Research Work (David Lane)
2005 Distinguished Service Award, Miami Biotechnology Winter Symposium (Philip Cohen)
2005 Nikon Fellowship at the Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, USA (Jason Swedlow)
2005 EMBO Gold Medal (Dario Alessi)
2005 Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal (Alan Fairlamb)
2006 Medal of Honour, Charles University, Prague (Angus Lamond)
2006 The Rolf Luft Award, Karoslinka Institute, Sweden (Philip Cohen)
2006 EMBO Young Investigator (John Rouse)
2006 INSERM Medal D'Estranger, France (David Lane)
2006 Gregor Mendel Memorial Medal, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Czech Republic (David Lane)
2007 New Investigator Award from the American Physiological Society (Kei Sakamoto)
2007 AICR (Association for International Cancer Research) Colin Thomson Memorial Medal Lecture (David Lane)
2007 David Hungerford Medal Lecture, Bangalore, India (David Lane)
2008 Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (Philip Cohen)
National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990
1990 The C.A. Wright Memorial Medal, British Society for Parasitology (Alan Fairlamb)
1990 The Berkeley Award of the British Mycological Society (Geoffrey Gadd)
1991 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (Mike Ferguson)
1992 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (Angus Lamond)
1993 The CIBA Medal and Prize of the British Biochemical Society (Philip Cohen)
1993 The Bruce Preller Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Philip Cohen)
1994 The Fleming Award of the Society for General Microbiology (Charles Dorman)
1996 The Silvanus Thompson Medal, Birmingham (David Lane)
1996 The Henry Dryerre Prize Lecture, Edinburgh (David Lane)
1996 Makdougall Brisbane Prize of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (Michael Ferguson)
1998 The Bruce Preller Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (David Lane)
1998 The Croonian Prize Lecture of the Royal Society of London (Philip Cohen)
2000 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (Dario Alessi)
2000 The Tenovus Scotland Margaret McClelland Award (Colin Watts)
2002 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (Tom Owen-Hughes)
2002 Makdougall Brisbane Prize of The Royal Society of Edinburgh(Dario Alessi)
2002 RNA and Ribozyme Chemistry Award of The Royal Society of Chemistry (David Lilley)
2002 The Philip Leverhulme Prize (Dario Alessi)
2002 The Fleming Award Medal of the Society for General Microbiology (Tracy Palmer)
2003 Medal of the Society of Chemical Industry (David Lane)
2004 The Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology (Jeff Williams)
2004 The Royal Medal of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (Philip Cohen)
2004 Biochemical Society Medal (David Lane)
2004 Royal Society Buchanan Medal (David Lane)
2005 Anthony Dipple Carcinogenesis Award (David Lane)
2005 Lister Research Prize Fellowship (Tomo Tanaka)
2006 Honourary Life Member of the British Phycological Society (John Raven)
2006 Lister Research Prize Fellowship (Daan van Aalten)
2006 CA Wright Memorial Medal of the British Society for Parasitology (Mike Ferguson)
2006 The Benefactors' Medal of the British Mycological Society (Geoff Gadd)
2006 Royal Society of Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Award (David Lilley
2006 The Fleming Award Medal of the Society for General Microbiology (Frank Sargent)
2007 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (Frank Sargent)
2007 The Hooke Medal of the British Society for Cell Biology (Tomo Tanaka)
2008 The Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society (John Rouse)
2008 The 3rd Capps Green Zomaya Award in Medicinal or Computational Chemistry (Andrew Hopkins)
Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2001 Sue Black
2004 Peter Downes
Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
2005 Cheryll Tickle2006 Alan Fairlamb
2008 Mike Ferguson
Staff elected Fellows of the Royal Society of London
1984 Philip Cohen
1990 John Raven
1996 David Lane
1998 Cheryll Tickle
2000 Mike Ferguson
2002 David Lilley
2005 Colin Watts
2007 Grahame Hardie
2008 Dario Alessi
Staff elected Members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
1982 Philip Cohen
1984 David Lilley
1990 David Lane
1991 Jeffrey Williams
1993 Angus Lamond
1996 Colin Watts
1999 Julian Blow
2000 Mike Ferguson
2000 Doreen Cantrell
2001 Cheryll Tickle
2005 Dario Alessi
2006 Paul Crocker
2007 Tom Owen-Hughes
Honorary Degrees Awarded
PhD University of Umea, Sweden (John Raven)
DSc University of Abertay Dundee (Philip Cohen)
DSc University of Abertay Dundee (David Lane)
DSc University of Strathclyde (Philip Cohen)
DS University of Stirling (David Lane)
DSc University of Bristol (Brian Eddy)
DSc University of Wales (Geoff Gadd)
2004 Honorary Doctorate of Medicine, University of Linkoping (Philip Cohen)
2004 DSc University of Aberdeen Sue Black)
2004 DSc University of St. Andrews (Cheryll Tickle)
2004 DSc University of Debrecen, Hungary (Philip Cohen)
2005 DSc University of St Andrews (Philip Cohen)
2007 LLD University of Dundee (Philip Cohen)
2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland (Grahame Hardie)
Staff Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1981 John Raven
1984 Philip Cohen
1988 David Lilley
1991 Peter Downes
1992 David Lane
1994 Mike Ferguson
1996 Ron Hay
1996 Angus Lamond
1996 Birgit Lane
1998 Grahame Hardie
1999 Colin Watts
2000 Cheryll Tickle
2001 Alan Fairlamb
2001 Jeffrey Williams
2002 Dario Alessi
2002 Julian Blow
2003 Bill Hunter
2004 Kees Weijer
2005 Sue Black
2005 Doreen Cantrell
2006 Paul Crocker
2007 Geoffrey Gadd
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
1998 Philip Cohen
2001 Birgit Lane
2001 Cheryll Tickle
2002 Grahame Hardie
2003 Doreen Cantrell (Council Member)
2005 Alan Fairlamb
2005 Ron Hay
2007 Mike Ferguson
2008 Bill Hunter
Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Honorary Fellow of the Hannah Research Institute
Fellows of the Institute of Biology
Geoffrey Gadd
John Raven
Brian Eddy
Cheryll Tickle(honorary)
Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture
Fellow of the Linnean Society
1989 Alan Fairlamb
2003 Geoff Gadd
Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists
Fellow of University College London
Philip Cohen
David Lane
Elected to Membership of Academia Europea
Elected to Honorary Membership of the Biochemical Society
2003 Philip Cohen
Citation Superstars
David Lane and Philip Cohen were named by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 2nd and 3rd most highly cited, UK-based, scientists of the 1990s, respectively. David Lane was the world's 7th most highly cited scientist from 1990-1997.
Philip Cohen, David Lane and Peter Downes were named as the 6th, 7th and 14th most highly cited UK-based scientists over the period 1980-1999.
John Raven has been recognised as a world leader after The Institute for Scientific Information identified him as one of only 8 UK plant and animal science researchers, from a total of 108 worldwide, who are continually quoted by other scientists. This puts John in the top 1% of scientists in his field.