John Gurdon

J B GURDON

Curriculum vitae

Date of birth: 2nd October, 1933 

Place of birth: Dippenhall, Hampshire, England

Nationality: British

Address: The Grove, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4NZ, UK

Education and Academic Career

Subject Degree

1947-1952  Eton College, Windsor

1952-1956  Christ Church College, OxfordZoology1st Class Honours

1956-1960  Department of Zoology.Embryology DPhil

Oxford  (Supervisor: Dr M Fischberg)

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1958-1961  Department of Zoology, OxfordBeit Memorial Fellow

1961-1962  California Institute of TechnologyGosney Research Fellow

1963-1964  Christ Church College, OxfordResearch Fellow

1965  Carnegie Institution, BaltimoreVisiting Research Fellow

1965-1972  Department of Zoology, OxfordUniversity Lecturer

1972-1983  Medical Research Council,Member of Permanent Staff

Laboratory of Molecular Biology,Head of Cell Biology Division,

Cambridge 1979-1983

1974-1983  Churchill College, CambridgeResearch Fellow

1983-1994  Churchill College, CambridgeProfessorial Fellow

1983-2001  John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Cell Biology, University of Cambridge, England

1988-2001  Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research Chairman and

Campaign Institute of Cancer and Senior Group Leader

Developmental Biology, Cambridge

1995-2000  The Wellcome Trust, LondonGovernor

1995-2002  Magdalene College, Cambridge Master

2001- present   Wellcome CR UK Institute, Cambridge Group Leader

(from Oct 2004:  Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)

Awards and Recognitions

Albert Brachet Prize, Belgian Royal Academy, 1968

Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society, 1968

Fellow of the Royal Society, 1971

Feldberg Foundation Award, 1975

Croonian Lecturer and John Jaffe Prize, Royal Society, 1976

Paul-Ehrlich-Ludwig-Darmstaedter Prize, Germany, 1977

Hon. Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978

Fellow, Eton College, 1978-93

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, University of Chicago, 1978

Nessim Habif Prize, University of Geneva, 1979

Ciba Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society, 1980

Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1980

Docteur Honoris Causa, Universite Rene Descartes, Paris, 1982

Comfort Crookshank triennial Award for Cancer Research, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1983

Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society, 1983

William Bate Hardy triennial Prize, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1984

Foreign Associate, Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Fine Arts, 1984

Prix Charles Leopold Mayer, Academie des Sciences, France, 1984

Honorary Studentship (= Fellowship), Christ Church, Oxford, 1985

Ross Harrison Prize, International Society of Developmental Biology, 1985

Royal Medal, Royal Society, 1985

Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, Royal Institution, 1985

Emperor Hirohito International prize for Biology, Japan, 1987

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, University of Oxford, 1988

Wolf Prize in Medicine, 1989

Foreign Member, Lombardy Academy of Science, 1989

Foreign Associate, Academie des Sciences, Institut de France, 1990

Member, Academia Europaea, 1991

Swedish Oncology Society, Jan Waldenstrom Medal, 1991

Distinguished Service Award, Miami, 1992

Knight Bachelor, June 1995

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, University of Hull, 1998

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, University of Glasgow, 2000

Jean Brachet Memorial Prize, International Society for Differentiation, 2000

Conklin Medal of the American Society for Developmental Biology, 2001

Honorary Fellowship, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2002

Copley Medal, Royal Society, 2003

Foreign Associate US National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, 2003

Pioneer in Stem Cell Award, Frontiers in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Organizing Committee, 2004

Charles M and Martha Hitchcock Professorship, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2006

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, University of Cambridge, 2007

Honorary Foreign Member American Anatomical Society, 2007

Honorary Member Anatomical Society of Great Britain, 2007

Saxen and Toivonen Memorial Medal and Prize, Finland, 2007

Honorary Fellowship, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2007

Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Sciences, Brandeis, USA 2009

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research , USA 2009

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, Vrije Universiteit Brussel 2009

Doctor of Science, Honoris causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2009

Honorary Fellowship, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2010

Honorary Fellowship, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, 2011

Doctor of Science, Honoris cause, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile 2012

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2012

Honorary Degree, University of Southern California, 2013

Honorary Fellowship of the Anatomical Society, 2013

Honorary Fellowship, American Association for Cancer Research, 2013

Honorary Member, Biochemical Society 2014

Honorary Degree, Rockefeller University, New York, USA, 2014

Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians, 2014

Honorary Fellowship, The Society of Biology, 2015

Mike Hogg Award and Medal, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA, 2015

Gold Medal, India Science Congress, 2016