Recent awards in the School of Life Sciences
Awards in 2025
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Professor David Horn FMedSci FRSE
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2025 | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
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2025 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Biochemical Society Industry and Academic Collaboration Award |
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2025 | Major Personal Funding Awards Academy of Medical Sciences, Springboard Award |
Professor Paul Birch FRSE
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2025 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 British Society for Plant Pathology RKS Wood Prize |
Professor Ian Ganley FRSE
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2025 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 British Society for Cell Biology Hooke Medal |
Dr Arpan Mehta BM BCh, MA, PhD, MRCP(UK) (Neurology)
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2025 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 51st Sir John Halliday Croom Lecture & Medal |
Professor Ian Ganley FRSE
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2025 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS FRSE FRSC
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2025 | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Professor Inke Nathke FMedSci FRSE
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2025 | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
Awards in 2024
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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Professor Geoffrey Gadd OBE FRSB FLS FLSW FRSE
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2024 | Order of the British Empire (OBE) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
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2024 | People's Award Individual Award |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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2024 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Morton Lecture |
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2024 | Personal Fellowships UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship |
| Media Kitchen (Lisa, Karen and Aileen) |
2024 | People's Award Team Award |
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2024 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award |
Dr James Abbott FRSB FHEA
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2024 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology |
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2024 | Brian Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research |
| Drug Discovery Unit-GSK Kinetoplastid Drug Discovery Team |
2024 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Industry and Academia Award |
| Drug Discovery Unit & GSK Global Health Unit |
2024 | International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 DNDi Project of the Year in pre-clinical research |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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2024 | Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Knowledge Exchange Champion at Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards |
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2024 | Howard Elder Prize |
| Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation and Boehringer Ingelheim |
2024 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Cancer Research Horizons Further, Faster, Together Industry-Academia Award |
| Marianna Longo and Aniketh Bishnu |
2024 | Molecular and Cellular Biology Prize |
Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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2024 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Royal Society of Edinburgh Sir James Black Medal |
| Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros |
2024 | Innovator of the Year |
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2024 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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2024 | Dean’s Professional Services Excellence Award |
Awards in 2023
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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2023 | International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 The Michael J. Fox Foundation Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research2023 |
| Dr Tom Snelling |
2023 | Howard Elder Prize |
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2023 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 C.A. Wright Memorial Medal |
| Engaged Researcher of the Year: Fred Simeons Team of the Year : CeTPD Outreach Team Project of the Year: MRC-PPU’s ‘Exchanges: Inspiring Parkinson's Conversations’ |
2023 | Brian Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research |
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2023 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
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2023 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Edinburgh Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal in Life Sciences |
| Derek Bateman and Ruth Hernandez (PhD student) Team Award went to the Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation and Training (SPPIRIT) Committee |
2023 | People's Award |
| Amphista Therapeutics Ltd founded by Professor Alessio Ciulli |
2023 | Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Commercialisation Achievement of the Year at PraxisAURIL KE Awards |
Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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2023 | Order of the British Empire (OBE) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
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2023 | Dean’s Professional Services Excellence Award |
| Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros for GenProtex |
2023 | Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Converge’s KickStart Challenge winner |
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2023 | Major Personal Funding Awards Lister Research Prize |
Dr William Farnaby MRSC
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2023 | PiCLS Best Mentor Award |
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2023 | Personal Fellowships Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship |
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2023 | Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation |
| Dr Alejandro Brenes Murillo |
2023 | PiCLS Best Postdoctoral/Technician Mentor Award |
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2023 | Personal Fellowships Race Against Dementia and Alzheimer’s Research UK Research Fellowship |
| Professor Andrew Hopkins FRS FMedSci FRSC FRSE FRSB |
2023 | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Research focused award - Peter Ibrahim Business focused award - Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros |
2023 | Innovator of the Year |
Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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2023 | Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
| Professor Andrew Hopkins FRS FMedSci FRSC FRSE FRSB |
2023 | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Dr Joshua Peter |
2023 | Molecular and Cellular Biology Prize |
Professor Ronald Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci
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2023 | Major Personal Funding Awards Cancer Research UK Programme Award (renewal) |
Awards in 2022
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| Amphista Therapeutics Ltd founded by Professor Alessio Ciulli |
2022 | Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards ‘Fierce 15’ biotechnology company by Fierce Biotech |
Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB FEAM SFHEA
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2022 | National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Edinburgh Senior Public Engagement Medal |
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2022 | Personal Fellowships Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship |
Dr Piers Hemsley SFHEA FRSB
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2022 | Fellow of Learned Societies and Colleges Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy |
| Professor Jennifer Woof |
2022 | Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching |
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2022 | Personal Fellowships Royal Society and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (renewal) |
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2022 | International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 Applied Microbiology International Dorothy Jones Prize |
| Louise Fraser, Heather Duncan, Team Award went to the Assess Team in CTIL |
2022 | People's Award |
| Best Innovation was awarded to a team comprising of Simone Altmann, Sandra Carvalho, Melanie Ridgway, Anna Trenaman, Michele Tinti, Susan Wyllie and David Horn Best Early-Stage Business Idea was won by Toan Phung (with significant contribution from Raja Nurijogi and team Alessi ) |
2022 | Innovator of the Year |