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Ron Laskey
British cell biologist

Ron Laskey

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British cell biologist
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Ronald Alfred Laskey CBE FRS (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. He was the Charles Darwin Professor of Embryology at the University of Cambridge. In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute (now known as the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute), along with five other senior scientists including Professor Sir John Gurdon. In 2001, he founded the Medical Research Council Cancer Cell Unit in 2001, and was Director of the Unit until 2010. Laskey is also a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Awards and honours

Laskey received a CBE in the 2011 New Year Honours. Other significant honours include the Royal Society Royal Medal, for his "pivotal contributions to our understanding of the control of DNA replication and nuclear protein transport, which has led to a novel screening method for cancer diagnosis", and the Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement Prize.

  • 1984: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • 1998: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine.
  • 2000: Tomorrow's World award for health innovation.
  • 2001: Croonian Lecture.
  • 2009: Royal Society Royal Medal.
  • 2011: Received an CBE in the New Year Honours list for services to Science.
  • 2014: Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement In Cancer Research Prize

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