Colworth medal winner

Dr Tom Owen-Hughes has been awarded this year's Colworth Medal of the British Biochemical Society for his work on chromatin re-modelling. The medal is awarded annually to a British Biochemist under the age of 36 for outstanding research achievement.

No less than eight Principal Investigators in the school of life sciences have been awarded the Colworth Medal over the past 32 years and seven are still working in the School.

Tom's research provides new insights into gene control, including how the correct genes are switched on at the right time. It is expected that by improving our understanding of the basic principles by which genes are regulated it will be possible to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and infections

Tom said:"This is great news. The fact that so many recipients of the Colworth Medal are in Dundee clearly illustrates the strength of biochemical research here. I owe a lot to the members of my research group and would like to specially thank Iestyn Whitehouse, Kristina Havas and Andrew Flaus for their contribution over the last three years." Dr Owen-Hughes will receive an honorarium of £1,000 and an invitation to present two lectures, at a Biochemical Society Meeting and at the research laboratory of the prize's sponsor, Unilever.

Caption Some of Dundee's Colworth medal winners: l to r Dario Alessi (1999), Philip Cohen (1977),Tom Owen-Hughes (2001), Pete Downes (1987) and Mike Ferguson (1991). The other winners are David Lilley (1983) and Angus Lamond (1992)

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