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Three leading Imperial researchers have been elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences for their outstanding work in their fields.This year’s researchers are among 59 influential biomedical and health scientists to be elected Fello
Professor Frank Kee, the Director of the Centre for Public Health in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University is among almost 60 of the UK’s most prominent biomedical and health scientists elected to The Academy
Beate Kampmann elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Beate Kampmann elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 12 May 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
Professor Beate Kampmann from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Share
Beate is one of 50 new Fellows who have been selected for this prestigious Fellowship. Awarded annually, they recognise exceptional contributions to the advancement of medical science through innovative research discoveries, and translating scientific developments into benefits for patients and the wider society.
Professor Lewis Wolpert, biologist, author and regular on TV and radio discussing science and depression – obituary
After suffering suicidal depression, with his candour and dry humour Wolpert found himself in demand to talk about his experiences
Professor Lewis Wolpert: a knack for explaining scientific ideas
Credit: Eleanor Bentall
Professor Lewis Wolpert, the developmental biologist and author, who has died of Covid-19 aged 91, was for many the approachable face of science, as a presenter or guest on numerous television and radio programmes.
As a biologist Wolpert was best known for the “French flag” model of embryonic development, proposed in a landmark 1969 paper, “Positional Information and the Spatial Pattern of Cellular Differentiation”, in which he used the French tricolor as a visual aid to show how embryonic cells can interpret genetic code to create the same pattern, even when certain pieces of the embryo are removed.