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Holger Gerhardt awarded 2012 Hooke Medal
Submitted by hawkes07 on Tue, 03/01/2012 - 14:03
Holger Gerhardt (Vascular Biology Laboratory) who has been announced the recipient of the 2012 Hooke Medal of the British Society of Cell Biology.
The Hooke medal is to be awarded annually to an emerging leader in cell biology who has made an outstanding contribution to UK Cell Biology usually within the first 10 years of establishing their own lab. The medal shows Robert Hooke’s microscope and the cork cells he first described.
Holger will give a plenary talk at the annual BSCB Spring meeting at the University of Warwick in April this year. He said "I am delighted to join the growing row of scientists from the LRI and the NIMR who have received this prestigious honour. It is a credit to the work of my team and the support at the LRI. Robert Hooke coined the term "cell", I possibly coined the term "tip cell", which no doubt is of lesser importance. What unites all of us is the fascination of cellular and molecular mechanisms and how they orchestrate biological patterns of (microscopic) beauty and importance."
Other LRI Group Leaders have won the Medal in the past are: Erik Sahai (Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory in 2009, and Frank Uhlmann (Cell Segregation Lab) in 2005.
For more information on the British Society of Cell Biology click here.
