The Colworth Medal is awarded annually by the

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to an outstanding research

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under the age of 35 and working mainly in the

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. The award is one of the most prestigious recognitions for young scientists in the UK, and was established by Tony James FRS at Unilever Research and Henry Arnstein of the

and takes its name from a Unilever research laboratory near

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population was 106,940. Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district. Bedford was founded at a ford (crossin ...

in the UK,

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. The medal was first presented in 1963 and many of those receiving the award are recognised as outstanding scientists achieving international reputations. The lecture is published in ''

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'', previously Colworth Medal lectures were published in The ''

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''.

Laureates

Source: * 2024: Kelly Nguyen * 2023:

Stephen Wallace Stephen Henry Wallace A.M. (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian film and television director, screenwriter, producer, published author and acting coach. He has directed eight feature films, nine telemovies, numerous short films, worked on ...

* 2022: Tanmay A. M. Bharat * 2021: Giulia Zanetti * 2020: Stephan Uphoff * 2019:

Melina Schuh Melina Schuh is a German biochemist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. She is known for her work on meiosis in mammalian oocytes, for her studies on the mechanisms leading to the age-related decline in femal ...

* 2018: Matthew Johnson * 2017: Markus Ralser * 2016: David Grainger * 2015: Helen Walden * 2014: M. Madan Babu * 2013: * 2012:

Akhilesh Reddy Akhilesh Reddy is a British physician-scientist. He completed the MB/PhD program at the University of Cambridge where he received a PhD from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He previously was a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Clinical ...

* 2011:

Sarah Teichmann Sarah Amalia Teichmann (born 15 April 1975) is a German scientist, the former 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 direc ...

* 2010: * 2009: * 2008: * 2007: Frank Sargent * 2006: Simon J. Boulton * 2005: * 2004: James H. Naismith * 2003: * 2002: * 2001: * 2000: Dario Alessi * 1999: Nigel Scrutton * 1998: David Barford * 1997: Stephen P. Jackson * 1996: Sheena Radford * 1995:

Jonathon Pines Jonathon Noë Joseph Pines (born 11 October 1961) is head of the Cancer Biology Division at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. He was formerly a senior group leader at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge. Education Pine ...

* 1994: * 1993: Nicholas Tonks * 1992: * 1991: Michael A. J. Ferguson * 1990: * 1988: Hugh Pelham * 1987: C. Peter Downes * 1986:

Greg Winter Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a Nobel Prize-winning British molecular biologist best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies. His research career has been based almost entirely at the MRC Laborator ...

* 1985:

Alec Jeffreys Sir Alec John Jeffreys, (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve ...

* 1984: * 1983: Eric Oldfield * 1982: * 1981: Terence H. Rabbitts * 1980: Richard A. Flavell * 1979:

Ronald Laskey Ronald Alfred Laskey FLSW (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. Career and research Laskey was the Charles Darwin Professor of Embryology at the University of Cambridge. In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcom ...

* 1978: * 1977: Philip Cohen * 1976: George Brownlee * 1975: * 1974: * 1973: * 1972: John M. Ashworth * 1971: * 1970:

Dai Rees David James Rees, (31 March 1913 – 15 November 1983) was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of the Second World War. The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as ...

* 1969: George Radda * 1968: * 1967: * 1966: Mark Henry Richmond * 1965: * 1964: Jamshed R. Tata * 1963:

Hans Kornberg Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (14 January 1928 – 16 December 2019) was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridg ...

References

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Laureates

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