John Gurdon#
Membership Number: | 1030 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1991 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/gurdon |
Present and Previous Positions
- Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1995 - 2002 Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- 1989 Founding member of the Wellcome/CRC Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer (later Wellcome/CR UK) in Cambridge, Chair until
- 1983 - present Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
- 1971 - 1983 Professor of Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge
- 1962 - 1971 Department of Zoology of the University of Oxford
- Postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology
- 1960 PhD, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear transplantation
- Developmental biology
- Cloning
Honours and Awards
- 1971 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1984 William Bate Hardy Prize
- 1985 Royal Medal
- 1987 International Prize for Biology
- 1989 Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 1995 Knighted
- 2001 Edwin Grant Conklin Medal
- 2004 Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute for Cell Biology and Cancer renamed the Gurdon Institute
- 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
- 2012 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 2014 Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians
- 2017 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement