The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture is a prize lecture of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

established in 2003 with an endowment from

Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work ...

, the late Francis Crick's close friend and former colleague. It is delivered annually in

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

, particularly the areas which Francis Crick worked (

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and physi ...

and

neurobiology Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developme ...

), and also to theoretical work. The medal is also intended for young scientists, i.e. under 40, or at career stage corresponding to being under 40 should their career have been interrupted.

List of lectures

Laureates include: * 2022 Tiago Branco ''for making fundamental advances in the molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neuronal computation and for successfully linking these to animal decision behaviour'' * 2021

Serena Nik-Zainal Serena Nik-Zainal is a British-Malaysian clinician who is a consultant in clinical genetics and Cancer Research UK advanced clinician scientist at the University of Cambridge. She makes use of genomics for clinical applications. She was awarded ...

''for enormous contributions to understanding the aetiology of cancers by her analyses of mutation signatures in cancer genomes, which is now being applied to cancer therapy'' * 2020 Marta Zlatic ''for discovering how neural circuits generate behaviour by developing and disseminating definitive techniques, and by discovering fundamental principles governing circuit development and function'' * 2019 Gregory Jefferis ''for his fundamental discoveries concerning the development and functional logic of sensory information processing'' * 2018 Miratul Muqit ''in recognition of his research on cell signalling linked to neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease'' * 2017 ''for transforming our understanding of meiotic recombination and of human population history.'' * 2016 Madan Babu Mohan ''for his major and widespread contributions to computational biology'' * 2015 Rob Klose ''for his research on how chromatin-based and epigenetic processes contribute to gene regulation'' * 2014 Duncan Odom ''for his pioneering work in the field of comparative functional genomics'' * 2013 Matthew Hurles on ''Mutations: great and small'' * 2012

Sarah Teichmann Sarah Amalia Teichmann (born 1975) is a German scientist who is head of cellular genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She serves as director of rese ...

on ''Finding patterns in genes and proteins: decoding the logic of molecular interactions'' * 2011 Simon Boulton on ''Repairing the code'' * 2010 Gilean McVean on Our genomes, our history'' * 2009 on ''Reprogramming the code of life'' * 2008

Simon Fisher Simon E. Fisher (born 1970) is a British geneticist and neuroscientist who has pioneered research into the genetic basis of human speech and language. He is a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of language a ...

on ''A molecular window into speech and language'' * 2007 Geraint Rees on ''Decoding consciousness'' * 2006

Dario Alessi Dario Alessi FRSE FRS (born in France, 1967) is a biochemist, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) and Professor of Signal Transduction, at the School of Life Sciences, University ...

on ''Deciphering disease'' * 2005 Daniel Wolpert on ''The puppet master: how the brain controls the body'' * 2004 Julie Ahringer on ''Genes, worms and the new genetics'' * 2003

Ewan Birney John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) (born 6 December 1972) is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Labor ...

on ''Being human: what our genome tells us''

References

{{RoySoc Annual events in the United Kingdom 2003 establishments in the United Kingdom Biology education in the United Kingdom Genetics awards Genetics in the United Kingdom Recurring events established in 2003 Royal Society lecture series

List of lectures

See also

References