Outstanding contribution to British biology

Jeff Williams, a Principal Investigator in the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology in the School of Life Sciences, has been awarded the Waddington Medal by the British Society of Developmental Biology for his outstanding contributions to British Developmental Biology.

The Waddington Medal is the only national award in Developmental Biology and was presented to Jeff at the BSDB Spring Meeting held at the University of Warwick.

Conrad Waddington was a leading British embryologist and geneticist who was highly influential in the development of both subjects during the 1930s through to the 1960s. He stressed the importance of genes and the control of gene activity in embryonic development even before the chemical nature of the gene was discovered.