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Honorary Fellows of the Academy
Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences is offered to those of the highest distinction in the field of medical science who would not necessarily be expected to participate in the affairs of the Academy but whose fellowship brings distinction to the organisation.
At the Academy's 2012 AGM the following were admitted as Honorary Fellows of the Academy:
Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Nobel Laureate and Director of the Unite de Regulation des Infections Retrovirales, Institut Pasteur
Citation delivered by Professor Robin A Weiss FRS FMedSci, Senior Research Fellow, University College London
Lord Martin Rees of Ludlow FRS FMedSci
Former Master, Trinity College Cambrdige, and past President of the Royal Society
Citation delivered by Sir Peter Lachmann FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, University of Cambridge
Baroness Mary Warnock of Weeke
House of Lords
Citation delivered by Baroness Onora O'Neill CBE HonFRS FBA FMedSci
Sir Andrew Witty
Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline
Citation delivered by Professor Sir John Bell FRS HonFREng FMedSci
The Academy's other Honorary Fellows are:
Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS Hon FRSE Hon FREng FMedSci (2000)
Honorary Professor University of Edinburgh; Past President of The Royal Society
Citation delivered by Sir Peter Lachmann FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, University of Cambridge
Professor Jean François Bach FMedSci (2006)
Secretaire Perpetuel, French Academy of Sciences
Citation delivered by Professor Herman Waldmann FRS FMedSci, Head of Department, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
Sir James Black OM FRS FMedSci (1999)
Chairman of The James Black Foundation Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1988
Sir Christopher (Charles) Booth FMedSci (2002)
Honorary Professor in the History of Medicine University College London
Citation delivered by Sir Keith Peters FMedSci
Dr Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci (1999)
Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute
Lord Alec Broers FREng FMedSci (2004)
President, Royal Academy of Engineering
Sir William Castell LVO FCA FMedSci (2004)
President & CEO, GE Healthcare
Citation delivered by Dr Michael Crumpton CBE FRS FMedSci
Sir David Cooksey FMedSci (2004)
Chairman, Advent Venture Partners
Citation delivered by Sir Richard Brook Sykes FRS FMedSci
Sir Martin Evans FRS FMedSci (2008)
Director of the School of Biosciences, Professor of Mammalian Genetics, University of Cardiff
Citation delivered by Professor Allan Bradley FRS FMedSci
Sir Roger Gibbs FMedSci (2003)
Director, Fleming & Family Partners
Professor Francois Gros FMedSci (2002)
Permanent Secretary of ‘Académie des Sciences’ (Honorary)
Academie des Sciences, Institute de France
Citation delivered by Professor Martin Bobrow CBE FRS FMedSci
Professor John Gurdon FRS FMedSci (2011)
Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology, University of Cambridge
Citation delivered by Professor Ron Laskey FRS FMedSci, Vice President, Academy of Medical Sciences
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland FMedSci (2009)
Former Director General of the World Health Organization
Citation delivered by Professor Robert Souhami CBE FMedSci
The Rt Reverend Richard Harries FMedSci (2004)
The Bishop of Oxford
Sir Tim Hunt FRS FRSE FMedSci (2006)
Principal Scientist, Cancer Research UK
Citation delivered by Sir John Skehel FRS
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC FMedSci (2011)
Barrister and Broadcaster
Citation delivered by Professor Richard Horton FMedSci, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci (2005)
Past President of the Royal Society
Sir Ralph Kohn FMedSci (2003)
Chairman, The Kohn Foundation
Sir Alan Langlands FRSE FMedSci (2009)
Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England
Citation delivered by Professor Rory Collins FMedSci
Professor Nicole Le Douarin ForMemFRS FMedSci (2002)
Secretaire perpetuelle de l'Académie des sciences and Professeur au Collège de France
Lord May of Oxford OM AC PRS HonFREng FMedSci (2005)
President, The Royal Society
Sir Paul Nurse FRS FMedSci (2006)
President, Rockefeller University, New York
Dr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS FMedSci (2011)
Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Citation delivered by Dame Julia Goodfellow DBE FMedSci, Vice Chancellor, University of Kent
Lord Sainsbury of Turville FMedSci (2008)
Former Under Secretary for State, Department for Trade and Industry with responsibility for Science
Citation delivered by Sir Keith Peters FRS FMedSci
Dr Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FMedSci (1999)
Formerly Member of Staff of the Medical Research Council.
Professor Amartya Sen FMedSci (2005)
Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
Professor Sir Edwin Southern FRS FMedSci (2009)
Professor of Biochemistry (Emeritus) at the University of Oxford
Citation delivered by Professor Ron Laskey FRS FMedSci
Sir John Edward Sulston FRS FMedSci (2003)
Emeritus Member, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Dr Thomas Waldmann FMedSci (2007)
Chief, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute’s Centre for Cancer Research
Citation delivered by Professor Herman Waldmann FRS FMedSci
Lord Harry Kenneth Woolf FMedSci (2002)
Lord Chief Justice
Professor Chen Zhu FMedSci (2008)
Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, China
Citation delivered by Professor Colin Blakemore FRS FMedSci
Sir Tim Hunt citation [51.52k]
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