The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture[1][2] is a prize lecture of the
Royal Society established in 2003 with an endowment from
Sydney Brenner, the late Francis Crick's close friend and former colleague. It is delivered annually in
biology, particularly the areas which
Francis Crick[3] worked (
genetics,
molecular biology and
neurobiology), and also to theoretical work. The medal is also intended for young scientists, i.e. under 40, or at career stage corresponding to being under 40 should their career have been interrupted.
2022
Tiago Branco [
Wikidata]for making fundamental advances in the molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neuronal computation and for successfully linking these to animal decision behaviour
2021
Serena Nik-Zainalfor enormous contributions to understanding the aetiology of cancers by her analyses of mutation signatures in cancer genomes, which is now being applied to cancer therapy
2020
Marta Zlaticfor discovering how neural circuits generate behaviour by developing and disseminating definitive techniques, and by discovering fundamental principles governing circuit development and function
2019
Gregory Jefferisfor his fundamental discoveries concerning the development and functional logic of sensory information processing
2018
Miratul Muqitin recognition of his research on cell signalling linked to neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease
2017
Simon Myers [
Wikidata]for transforming our understanding of meiotic recombination and of human population history.