The Novartis Medal and Prize (formerly Ciba)

• This medal is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of any branch of biochemistry.
• The award is for work carried out in the U.K. but is open to candidates of any nationality, subject to nomination.
• The award was donated in 1964 by the Ciba Laboratories, Horsham (later the Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals Division and now Novartis).
• The recipient of the award receives a medal and £2,000 and is expected to deliver a lecture at a Society meeting.
• The lecture is published in Biochemical Society Transactions.

The next award lecture will be presented in 2008 by Stephen West (Cancer Research UK) at the Annual Symposium: DNA damage: from causes to cures. Robinson College, Cambridge, UK, 15 - 17 December 2008.

The 2009 award will be presented by Professor Dame Louise Johnson (University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source).

Past recipients
The place of delivery of a lecture is given in parentheses.
2007: A. Bird (Edinburgh 2008)   Full text
2006: J. Barber (Glasgow)   Full text
2005: A. Hall (Glasgow)      Full text
2004: J.D. Beggs (Edinburgh)   Full text
2003: I.D. Campbell (Essex)   Full text
2002: M.S. Neuberger (Heriot-Watt)   Full text
2001: S. Halford (Bristol)   Full text
2000: K.E. Nagai (Sussex)   Full text
1999: C.J. Marshall (Glasgow)   Full text
1998: R.N. Perham (Sheffield)
1997: R. Laskey (Dundee)
1996: J. E. Walker (Queen Mary & Westfield College, London)
1995: C.F. Higgins (Manchester)
1994: J. Subak-Sharpe, (Cardiff)
1993: T. Rabbitts (Leeds)
1992: P. Cohen (Warwick)
1991: P. Nurse, FRS (Manchester)
1988: R.H. Michell, FRS (London)
1987: T.L. Blundell, FRS (Sheffield)
1985: E.A. Barnard, FRS (Cambridge)
1984: P.J. Randle, FRS (London)
1983: G.K. Radda, FRS (Leeds)
1981: I.H. Muir, CBE, FRS (Oxford)
1980: S. Brenner, FRS (Manchester)
1979: J.B. Gurdon, FRS (Sheffield)
1978: J.R. Quayle, FRS (Cambridge)
1977: C. Milstein, FRS (Galway)
1976: S.V. Perry, FRS (London)
1975: E.F. Hartree (Stirling)
1974: E. Kodicek, CBE, FRS (Edinburgh)
1973: P.D. Mitchell, FRS (London)
1972: R.T. Williams, FRS (London)
1971: D.H. North-cote, FRS (Surrey)
1970: D.C. Phillips, FRS (London)
1969: T.W. Goodwin, CBE, FRS (London)
1968: W.J. Whelan, FRS (London)
1967: D.M. Blow, FRS (Cork)
1966: R.R. Porter, FRS (Horsham)
1965: J.W. Cornforth, CBE, FRS and G.J. Popjak, FRS (London)

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