The Francis Crick Medal and Lecture[1][2] is a prize lecture of the Royal Society established in 2003 with an endowment from Sydney Brenner, the late Francis Crick's close friend and former colleague. It is delivered annually in biology, particularly the areas which Francis Crick[3] worked (genetics, molecular biology and neurobiology), and also to theoretical work. The medal is also intended for young scientists, i.e. under 40, or at career stage corresponding to being under 40 should their career have been interrupted.
2024 Sam Behjatifor fundamental discoveries into the developmental roots of childhood cancer
2023 Stephen Fleming for tackling foundational questions about the neurobiology of conscious experience and advancing our understanding of the neural and computational basis of metacognition
2022 Tiago Branco [Wikidata]for making fundamental advances in the molecular, cellular and circuit bases of neuronal computation and for successfully linking these to animal decision behaviour
2021 Serena Nik-Zainalfor enormous contributions to understanding the aetiology of cancers by her analyses of mutation signatures in cancer genomes, which is now being applied to cancer therapy
2020 Marta Zlaticfor discovering how neural circuits generate behaviour by developing and disseminating definitive techniques, and by discovering fundamental principles governing circuit development and function
2019 Gregory Jefferisfor his fundamental discoveries concerning the development and functional logic of sensory information processing
2018 Miratul Muqitin recognition of his research on cell signalling linked to neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease
2017 Simon Myers [Wikidata]for transforming our understanding of meiotic recombination and of human population history.
