Recent awards in the School of Life Sciences
Awards in 2026
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Academy of Medical Sciences, Springboard Award |
2026 |
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| Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
2026 |
Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS FMedSci FRSE FRSC
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Staff Award |
2026 |
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 National Academy of Sciences, USA |
2026 |
Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
2026 |
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| Personal Fellowships Collaborative Research Network Discovery Fellowship |
2026 |
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| Personal Fellowships Collaborative Research Network Discovery Fellowship |
2026 |
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 American Academy of Arts & Sciences Class II - Biological Sciences (Cellular & Developmental Biology) |
2026 |
Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 Feldberg Prize - British Recipient |
2026 |
Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Biochemical Society Research Support Award |
2026 |
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| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
2026 |
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| Fellow of Learned Societies and Colleges Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology |
2026 |
Professor Sarah Coulthurst FRSE FEAM
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| Personal Fellowships Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award |
2026 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Lifetime Achievement Award at Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards |
2026 |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Career Development Award |
2026 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Career Development Award |
2026 |
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Biochemical Society Industry and Academic Collaboration Award |
2026 | ACBI (Alessio Ciulli and Boehringer Ingelheim) PROTAC collaboration team |
Awards in 2025
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
2025 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Staff Award |
2025 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture McGhee Award |
2025 |
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Chemistry Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector Hall of Fame and Medal |
2025 |
Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS FMedSci FRSE FRSC
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing Refinement Prize |
2025 | Biological Services in collaboration with Lee Robinson, Mattie Pawlowic Lab |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Hescott-Meredith Memorial Award at the British Potato Awards |
2025 | James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, Greenvale and McCain Foods |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Edinburgh Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal in Life Sciences |
2025 | Dr Ralitsa Madsen |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards The Courier Business Awards Outstanding Contribution Award |
2025 |
Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE FAA FFMedSci
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 Applied Microbiology International WH Pierce Global Impact in Microbiology Prize |
2025 |
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| Personal Fellowships BioFAIR Fellowship |
2025 |
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| Personal Fellowships UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (extension) |
2025 |
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Biochemical Society Industry and Academic Collaboration Award |
2025 |
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
2025 | Dr Maxim Igaev |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Royal Society Leeuwenhoek Medal |
2025 |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Academy of Medical Sciences, Springboard Award |
2025 | Dr Maxim Igaev |
| Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
2025 |
Professor David Horn FMedSci FRSE
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| Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
2025 |
Professor Inke Nathke FMedSci FRSE
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| Fellow of the Royal Society |
2025 |
Professor Alessio Ciulli FRS FMedSci FRSE FRSC
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| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
2025 |
Professor Ian Ganley FRSE
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 51st Sir John Halliday Croom Lecture & Medal |
2025 |
Dr Arpan Mehta BM BCh, MA, PhD, MRCP(UK) (Neurology)
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 British Society for Cell Biology Hooke Medal |
2025 |
Professor Ian Ganley FRSE
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 British Society for Plant Pathology RKS Wood Prize |
2025 |
Professor Paul Birch FRSE
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Awards in 2024
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 DNDi Project of the Year in pre-clinical research |
2024 | Drug Discovery Unit & GSK Global Health Unit |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Staff Award |
2024 | Peter Ibrahim and Professor Mike Bodkin |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture McGhee Award |
2024 | Peter Ibrahim and Professor Mike Bodkin |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Life Sciences Award |
2024 |
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| Brian Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research |
2024 |
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| People's Award Team Award |
2024 | Media Kitchen (Lisa, Karen and Aileen) |
| People's Award Individual Award |
2024 |
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| Dean’s Professional Services Excellence Award |
2024 |
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| Innovator of the Year |
2024 | Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros |
| Molecular and Cellular Biology Prize |
2024 | Marianna Longo and Aniketh Bishnu |
| Howard Elder Prize |
2024 |
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Morton Lecture |
2024 |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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| Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology |
2024 |
Dr James Abbott FRSB FHEA
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| Personal Fellowships UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship |
2024 | Dr Ralitsa Madsen |
| Order of the British Empire (OBE) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
2024 |
Professor Geoffrey Gadd OBE FRSB FLS FLSW FRSE
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| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
2024 |
Professor Sarah Coulthurst FRSE FEAM
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 The Royal Society of Edinburgh Sir James Black Medal |
2024 |
Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Cancer Research Horizons Further, Faster, Together Industry-Academia Award |
2024 | Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation and Boehringer Ingelheim |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Knowledge Exchange Champion at Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards |
2024 |
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci FRSB
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Industry and Academia Award |
2024 | Drug Discovery Unit-GSK Kinetoplastid Drug Discovery Team |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award |
2024 |
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Awards in 2023
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| Molecular and Cellular Biology Prize |
2023 | Dr Joshua Peter |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture McGee Award |
2023 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Life Sciences Award |
2023 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Early Career Award |
2023 |
Dr William Farnaby MRSC
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship |
2023 |
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
2023 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Cancer Research UK Programme Award (renewal) |
2023 |
Professor Ronald Hay FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
2023 |
Professor Doreen Cantrell CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| Personal Fellowships Race Against Dementia and Alzheimer’s Research UK Research Fellowship |
2023 |
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| Personal Fellowships Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship |
2023 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Converge’s KickStart Challenge winner |
2023 | Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros for GenProtex |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards Commercialisation Achievement of the Year at PraxisAURIL KE Awards |
2023 | Amphista Therapeutics Ltd founded by Professor Alessio Ciulli |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
2023 |
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| Howard Elder Prize |
2023 | Dr Tom Snelling |
| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 C.A. Wright Memorial Medal |
2023 |
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| Innovator of the Year |
2023 | Research focused award - Peter Ibrahim Business focused award - Ricardo Moreno Ballesteros |
| PiCLS Best Postdoctoral/Technician Mentor Award |
2023 | Dr Alejandro Brenes Murillo |
| PiCLS Best Mentor Award |
2023 |
Dr William Farnaby MRSC
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| Dean’s Professional Services Excellence Award |
2023 |
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| People's Award |
2023 | Derek Bateman and Ruth Hernandez (PhD student) Team Award went to the Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation and Training (SPPIRIT) Committee |
| Brian Cox Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Research |
2023 | Engaged Researcher of the Year: Fred Simeons Team of the Year : CeTPD Outreach Team Project of the Year: MRC-PPU’s ‘Exchanges: Inspiring Parkinson's Conversations’ |
| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 The Michael J. Fox Foundation Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research2023 |
2023 |
Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
2023 | Professor Andrew Hopkins FRS FMedSci FRSC FRSE FRSB |
| Fellow of the Royal Society |
2023 | Professor Andrew Hopkins FRS FMedSci FRSC FRSE FRSB |
| Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation |
2023 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Lister Research Prize |
2023 |
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| Order of the British Empire (OBE) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) |
2023 |
Professor Dario Alessi OBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Edinburgh Dame Anne McLaren Early Career Medal in Life Sciences |
2023 |
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Awards in 2022
| Award | Year | Awarded to |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards ‘Fierce 15’ biotechnology company by Fierce Biotech |
2022 | Amphista Therapeutics Ltd founded by Professor Alessio Ciulli |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Wildcard Award |
2022 |
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| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Life Sciences Award Runner Up |
2022 | Dr Dinesh Shah |
| Innovation and Knowledge Exchange awards University of Dundee Venture Life Sciences Award |
2022 | Shravya Murali and Shreya Kashyap |
| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
2022 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
2022 |
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| Major Personal Funding Awards Wellcome Discovery Award |
2022 |
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society University Research Fellowship |
2022 |
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| Personal Fellowships Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship |
2022 |
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| National Sciences Prizes awarded since 1990 Royal Society of Edinburgh Senior Public Engagement Medal |
2022 |
Professor Nicola Stanley-Wall FRSE FRSB FEAM SFHEA
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| Innovator of the Year |
2022 | Best Innovation was awarded to a team comprising of Simone Altmann, Sandra Carvalho, Melanie Ridgway, Anna Trenaman, Michele Tinti, Susan Wyllie and David Horn Best Early-Stage Business Idea was won by Toan Phung (with significant contribution from Raja Nurijogi and team Alessi ) |
| People's Award |
2022 | Louise Fraser, Heather Duncan, Team Award went to the Assess Team in CTIL |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
2022 |
Professor Inke Nathke FMedSci FRSE
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| International Science Prizes awarded since 1990 Applied Microbiology International Dorothy Jones Prize |
2022 |
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| Personal Fellowships Royal Society and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (renewal) |
2022 |
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| Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching |
2022 | Professor Jennifer Woof |
| Fellow of Learned Societies and Colleges Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy |
2022 |
Dr Piers Hemsley SFHEA FRSB
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