Fellow 1982-1991

Research Interests
Direct analysis of the mutational and recombinational processes operating in the germ line that creates human genome diversity.

Other Information
Promoted to Reader, Department of Genetics, 1984
Awarded the Colworth Medal for Biochemistry by the Biochemical Society
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, March 1986
Invention – DNA Fingerprinting Technology – exploited commercially by ICI under licence from the Lister Institute, June 1986
Fellowship extended by 5 years to 30.9.92
Carter Medal by the Clinical Genetics Society, 1987
Awarded the 1987 Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society
Awarded the Davy Medal for Chemistry and Biochemistry of The Royal Society, 1987
Professor (Personal Chair) in the Department of Genetics from 1.10.87
Awarded the Analytica Prize from the German Society for Clinical Chemistry, April 1988
“Midlander of the Year”, 1988
Leicester Publicity Association Achievement of the Year Award, 1989
Elected Fellow of the Forensic Science Society of India, September 1989
Elected Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, December 1989
Elected Fellow Royal College of Pathologists, 1991
Resigned Fellowship on appointment as Wolfson Research Professor of The Royal Society from 1.10.91
Elected member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, July 1991
Awarded the Allen Award by the American Society of Human Genetics, 1992
Awarded the Milano Award, 1992, in memory of Norberto Montalbetti, by the Fondazione Internationale Biotechnologie, Milan
Elected a Member of the Institute, March 1992
Awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholarship, 1993-1998
Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, June 1993
Freedom of the City of Leicester conferred 27.8.93
Awarded the Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology, November 1993
Honour of Knighthood conferred in the New Year’s Honours, 1994
Elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and awarded their gold medal for Zoology, 1994
Co-opted as a Governor of the Institute, 18.7.95
Awarded the Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Medal, 1995
Awarded the Albert Einstein ‘World Award of Science’ 1996 by the World Cultural Council
Elected Honorary Member, International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics, 1997
Awarded the Baly Medal by the Royal College of Physicians, 1997
Awarded the Society of Chemical Industry Medal, 1997
Elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 1998
Honorary Life Member, Leicestershire Medico-Legal Society, 1998
Co-recipient of the Australian Prize awarded in Molecular Genetics, 1998
Elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Biology, 1998
(conferment of the title, Chartered Biologist)
Awarded honorary degrees by the Open University, Luton University, St Andrews University and Strathclyde University
Elected as founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998
Awarded the Sir George Stokes Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999
Awarded the Edward Buchner Prize by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2000
Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Society of Medicine, 2001
Work honoured by Royal Society of Chemistry with a National Historic Chemical Landmark Award, 2002
Voted Top Leicestershire Person by readers of The Leicester Mercury, 2002
Hon Member of the Biochemical Society, 2003
Given the AMP (Association of Molecular Pathology, USA) award for excellence in diagnostics, 2003
Awarded honorary DSc degrees by the Universities of Hull and Oxford, 2004
Awarded an Honorary Gold Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2004
Co-recipient of Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, 2004
Recipient of a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004
Awarded an Hon DSc by University of Leicester, 2004
Awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society, 2004
Awarded an Honorary DSc by Kingston University, 2005
Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Washington DC, USA, 2005
Honorary Fellowship conferred by the University of Swansea, 2005
Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, shared with Sir Edwin Southern, New York, USA, 2005.Awarded Dr H P Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
Winner of the Morgan Stanley Great Briton Award in Science & Innovation and overall winner of the award Great Briton 2006
Awarded Honorary DSc, University of Warwick, 2007
Awarded Honorary DSC, King’s College London, 2007
Awarded Honorary DSC, University of Teesside, 2007
Millennium Laureate, Millennium Foundation, Helsinki, Finland, 2008
Association of College Gold Award for Further Education Alumni, 2008
Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, University of Dundee, 2008
Awarded Distinguished Honorary Fellowship, University of Leicester, 2009
Awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Huddersfield, 2009
Croonian Lecture Prize, Royal Society, London, 2010
ESHG Award 2010, the European Society for Human Genetics, 2010
Edward O Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award, the American Computer Museum, Bozeman, MT, USA, 2010
Excellence Award, Indian Congress of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Noida, India, 2010
ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies, Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2011
Awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012
Honorary Member of the Genetics Society, 2012
Elected an Honorary member of the Clinical Genetics Society, 2013
Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Hong Kong, 2013
AstraZeneca Award, Biochemical Society, 2013
Awarded Copley Medal, 2014
Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, De Montfort University, 2014
Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Wolverhampton University, 2014
Companion of Honour, 2017
Leicestershire Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019