Hooke Medal Winner 2023: Andrew Carter

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Hooke Medal is… Andrew Carter Andrew Carter is a group leader at the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge.  His team focus on the microtubule motor cytoplasmic dynein (dynein) and how it transports its large range of cellular cargos. Andrew studied biochemistry at Oxford.  […]

Hooke Medal Winner 2022: Jeremy Carlton

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2022 Hooke Medal is… Jeremy Carlton Jeremy Carlton runs the Organelle Dynamics laboratory within the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences at King’s College London and is currently seconded to the Francis Crick Institute. His research group investigate the functions of organelles, how they are remodelled […]

Hooke Medal Winner 2021: Stephen Royle

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 Hooke Medal is… Stephen Royle Stephen Royle is a cell biologist at the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School. His research group work on membrane trafficking and on mitosis in human cells. As an undergraduate, Steve studied Biological Sciences at University of Sheffield […]

Hooke Medal Winner 2020: Ian Chambers

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Hooke Medal is… You can watch Ian’s medal talk here. Ian Chambers After obtaining a 1st in Biochemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Ian did a PhD at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research with Paul Harrison studying the control of gene expression during erythroid […]

BSCB Hooke Medal 2020 Winner

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Hooke Medal for 2020 is Prof. Ian Chambers, from the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Ian presented his medal lecture online at Dynamic Cell IV, a joint meeting of the BSCB and the Biochemical Society, in March of 2021. You can read more […]

Hooke Medal Winner 2019: Eugenia Piddini

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 Hooke Medal is… Eugenia Piddini Originally trained in Cell Biology at the University of Palermo, Italy, Eugenia did a PhD in the lab of Carlos Dotti at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where she studied the regulation of cell shape by […]

Hooke Medal Winners

Hooke Medal Winner 2020 Ian Chambers You can watch Ian’s medal lecture here. Year Winner Name Affiliation Link to Website or article 2019 Eugenia Piddini University of Bristol BSCB Website Lab Website 2018 Andrew McAinsh University of Warwick  BSCB Website Lab Website 2017 Ewa Paluch MRC LMB University College, London BSCB Website Lab Website 2016 […]

Hooke Medal

The Hooke Medal is awarded every year by the BSCB and recognises an emerging leader in cell biology.  The award was first made in 2000 and is named after Robert Hooke, the eminent 17th century natural philosopher and author of Micrographia (the world’s first comprehensive illustrated book on microscopy). It is given to an individual who  […]