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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 […]
Each year the British Society for Cell Biology presents two prestigious medals: 1) The Hooke Medal to an outstanding UK cell biologist who has been working as an independent PI for 14 years or less. 2) The BSCB Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal which is an honour awarded to an outstanding female cell biologist who has […]
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2018 Hooke Medal is… Andrew McAinsh Following a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Steve Jackson (1997-2001), Andrew moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA to train with Peter Sorger. Here, as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, his enthusiasm for kinetochore biology was ignited. […]
We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Hooke Medal is Andrew McAinsh, from the University of Warwick. He will be presented with his medal and give a medal lecture at the annual BSCB meeting, Dynamic Cell III, in Manchester, 19-21st March 2018. Andrew McAinsh’s lab is focused on understanding how chromosomes […]
Biography: Ewa studied Physics and Mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. She did her PhD (2001-2005) at the Curie Institute in Paris, under the supervision of Cécile Sykes and Michel Bornens, investigating actin networks mechanics in vitro and in cells. In 2006, directly after her PhD, she moved to Dresden to start […]
The BSCB are delighted to announce that the winner of the Hooke medal for 2017 is Ewa Paluch. Ewa is Professor of Cell Biophysics and MRC programme leader at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, and head of the Institute for the Physics of Living Systems. Many congratulations! The Hooke medal […]
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2016 Hooke Medal is Thomas Surrey. Many congratulations. Prof. Surrey is based at the Francis Crick Institute and will deliver his medal lecture at the BSCB/BSDB joint spring meeting.
Biography: After completing his PhD on membrane protein folding with Prof. Fritz Jaehnig (Max-Planck-Institute for Biology, 1990-1995), Thomas undertook his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Stanislas Leibler (Princeton University, 1995-1997) and Dr. Eric Karsenti (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, 1998-2001). He then became Staff Scientist (2001), Team Leader (2002) and Group Leader (2006) at EMBL, before […]
Hooke Medal Winner 2014 – Anne Bertolotti The 2014 Hooke Medal winner was Anne Bertolotti from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular BIology, Cambridge. Anne Bertolotti has been a group leader at the MRC LMB since 2006 and an INSERM scientist since 2001. She was elected an EMBO Young Investigator in 2005 and an EMBO Member in 2013. Anne […]
Congratulations go to Kebs Hodivala-Dilke who has won this year’s Hooke Medal. Prof Hodivala-Dilke has made international contributions to understanding the role of adhesion related molecules, including integrins and downstream signalling molecules, in tumour angiogenesis and cancer spread making her a very worthy winner.
