Medals
Each year the Biochemical Society recognizes excellence and achievement in both specific and general fields of bioscience in the form of a series of prestigious awards.
These Award Lectures are published in Biochemical Society Transactions in the form of authoritative reviews of the Awardees' research areas.
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Recent Lectures:
Novartis Medal Lecture
Decoding the SUMO signal
Ronald T. Hay..........463–473
Colworth Medal Lecture
Mechanisms of microbial escape from phagocyte killing
Leanne M. Smith and Robin C. May..........475–490
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The ATP synthase: the understood, the uncertain and the unknown
John E. Walker..........1–16
Early Career Research Award
Type IV secretion machinery: molecular architecture and function
Vidya Chandran..........17–28
Early Career Research Award
Development of inhibitors as research tools for carbohydrate-processing enzymes
Tracey M. Gloster..........913–928
Delivered at the Biochemical Society Centenary Event held at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011
Early Career Research Award
Synthesis of post-translationally modified proteins
Sander van Kasteren..........929–944
Delivered at the Biochemical Society Centenary Event held at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011
Colworth Medal Lecture
The emergence of protein complexes: quaternary structure, dynamics and allostery
Tina Perica, Joseph A. Marsh, Filipa L. Sousa, Eviatar Natan, Lucy J. Colwell, Sebastian E. Ahnert and Sarah A. Teichmann..........40, 475–491
Biochemical Society Award
Calcium signalling remodelling and disease
Michael J. Berridge..........40, 297‑309
Early Career Research Award
Metabolic sensors and their interplay with cell signalling and transcription
Alena Krejčí..........40, 311‑323
Early Career Research Award
Dynamic clustering of IP3 receptors by IP3
Taufiq Rahman..........40, 325‑330
Forthcoming Medal Lectures:
- Centenary Award Lecture - Nahum Sonenberg (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Novartis Medal Lecture - Angus Lamond (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Sir Philip Randle Lecture - Stephen O'Rahilly (delivered at the Royal Society, London, on 16 December 2011)
- Early Career Research Award - Sovan Sarkar (delivered at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 28 March 2012)
- Morton Lecture - Kai Simmons (delivered at St Anne's College, Oxford, on 23 August 2012)
- GlaxoSmithKline Award - Andrew Jackson (delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 5 September 2012)
- Centenary Award Lecture - David Baker (delivered at the University of Cambridge on 13 December 2012)
- Colworth Medal Lecture - Akhilesh Reddy (delivered at the University of Cambridge on 13 December 2012)
- Centenary Award Lecture - Marius Clore (delivered at the University of Cambridge on 13 December 2012)