Media/photo opportunity 3pm, Friday 23 May, Wellcome Trust Biocentre
After receiving an honorary degree from the University of Dundee in 2002, Nobel Laureate Dr Tim Hunt returns to the University on Friday, May 23, to deliver the Royal Society's premier lecture in the biological sciences.
The Croonian Lecture is the oldest scientific lecture in the world and has been given nearly every year since 1660.
In delivering the lecture Dr Hunt, Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK's Clare Hall Laboratories, joins many legendary figures in the biological sciences, which over the last 50 years include ten other Nobel Laureates. Previous lecturers include the physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1928), Sir Peter Medawar (1958), Sir Hans Krebs (1963), Max Perutz (1968) and the double Nobel Laureate Fred Sanger (1975). In 1998 the University's own Professor Sir Philip Cohen was awarded the lecture for his contributions to our understanding of how insulin works.
Dr Hunt's lecture is entitled 'Cell growth, cell division and the problem of cancer' and takes place in the Medical Science Institute's Large Lecture Theatre. All are welcome and entry is free.
By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk