This evening (Monday 17 November) at the London Marriott Hotel in Grovesnor Square, Mayfair, a gala dinner will be held in honour of Sir Philip Cohen who is being made an Honorary Member of the British Biochemical Society.
At the dinner Sir Philip will be presented with a specially engraved silver salver.
Commenting on the award Sir Philip said "The British Biochemical Society has over 7,000 members and has only awarded honorary membership to 23 people over the past 35 years. Having looked at the list, which included 9 Nobel Prize winners, it is clearly a tremendous honour to have received this award."
Peter Downes, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Dundee and the current Chairman of the British Biochemical Society said "The Biochemical Society takes great pride in its Honorary Members and Sir Philip continues the unbroken series of scientific superstars. It is an equally significant accolade for Dundee where Sir Philip has built not just his own reputation, but one of the world's leading biomedical research institutions."
Sir Philip is the only scientist in Scotland to have received Honorary Membership of the British Biochemical Society.
Founded in 1911, The Biochemical Society is the main scientific society for biochemists and molecular biologists. As a learned society serving the life-science community worldwide, it aims to encourage communication in the molecular and cellular life sciences among individual scientists and among scientific societies in the UK and abroad. The Society has some 7000 members, three-quarters of whom are UK-based, and it is one of the most highly respected life-science societies in the country. It publishes the Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions, The Biochemist, Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry and Clinical Science, as well as a wide range of books.
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