The Colworth Medal is awarded annually by the

Biochemical Society The Biochemical Society is a learned society in the United Kingdom in the field of biochemistry, including all the cellular and molecular biosciences. Structure It currently has around 7000 members, two-thirds in the UK. It is affiliated with th ...

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 of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...

in the UK,

Colworth House Colworth House is an 18th-century mansion set in an area of parkland on the edge of the village of Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. History The surrounding site has been occupied since prehistoric times. The current ...

. 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 '' Biochemical Society Transactions'', previously Colworth Medal lectures were published in The ''

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''.

Laureates

Source: * 2021:

Giulia Zanetti Giulia may refer to: People * Giulia (given name) * Giulia (wrestler) (born 1994), English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler Places * Cappella Giulia, a chapel in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome * Friuli-Venezia Giulia, one of the 20 regio ...

* 2020:

Stephan Uphoff Stephan may refer to: * Stephan, South Dakota, United States * Stephan (given name), a masculine given name * Stephan (surname), a Breton-language surname See also * Sankt-Stephan * Stefan (disambiguation) * Stephan-Oterma * Stephani * St ...

* 2019: Melina Schuh * 2018: Matthew Johnson * 2017:

Markus Ralser Markus Ralser (born 3 April 1980 in Vipiteno, Italy) is an Italian biologist. His main research interest is metabolism of microorganisms. He is also known for his work on the origin of metabolism during the origin of life, and proteomics. Li ...

* 2016:

David Grainger David Grainger is a partner at medicxi, a European life sciences-oriented venture capital firm and chief executive officer of Methuselah Health Ltd., a drug development company doing proteomics research in the longevity space. He was formerly w ...

* 2015:

Helen Walden Helen Walden is an English structural biologist who received the Colworth medal from the Biochemical Society in 2015. She was awarded European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) membership in 2022. She is a Professor of Structural Biology ...

* 2014:

M. Madan Babu M. Madan Babu is an Indian-American computational biologist and bioinformatician. He is the endowed chair in biological data science and director of the center of excellence for data-driven discovery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ...

* 2013: * 2012: Akhilesh Reddy * 2011: Sarah Teichmann * 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 Sheena Elizabeth Radford FRS FMedSci is a British biophysicist, and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Leeds. Radford is the A ...

* 1995: Jonathon Pines * 1994: * 1993: Nicholas Tonks * 1992: * 1991: Michael A. J. Ferguson * 1990: * 1988:

Hugh Pelham Sir Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham, (born 26 August 1954) is a cell biologist who has contributed to our understanding of the body's response to rises in temperature through the synthesis of heat shock proteins. He served as director of the Med ...

* 1987: C. Peter Downes * 1986:

Greg Winter Sir Gregory Paul Winter (born 14 April 1951) is a Nobel Prize-winning English 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 resol ...

* 1984: * 1983: * 1982: * 1981: Terence H. Rabbitts * 1980:

Richard A. Flavell Richard Anthony Flavell (born 23 August 1945 in Chelmsford, Essex), PhD, FRS is an English molecular biologist, and Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, at Yale School of Medicine where he uses transgenic and gene-targeted mice to study Innate ...

* 1979:

Ronald Laskey Ronald Alfred Laskey (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 Wellcome Trus ...

* 1978: * 1977: Philip Cohen * 1976:

George Brownlee Professor George Gow Brownlee FRS FMedSci is a British pathologist and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Education Brownlee was educated at Dulwich College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he studied Natural Sciences and was awarded a Ma ...

* 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 Sir Marcus Henry Richmond, (born 1 February 1931), known as Mark Richmond, is a British biochemist, microbiologist and academic. Early life and education Richmond was born in 1931, the son of H. S. Richmond, a film producer. He was educated a ...

* 1965: * 1964:

Jamshed R. Tata Jamshed R. Tata, FRS (13 April 1930 to 8 October 2020) was an Indian-born endocrinologist who spent most of his career at the National Institute for Medical Research researching thyroid hormones. His key discovery was that thyroid hormones contr ...

* 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 (college), Master of Christ's ...

References

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