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; Novartis Medal and Prize
* 2021: Bart Vanhaesebroeck
* 2019: Caroline Dean  
* 2018: Laurence Pearl
* 2017: Doreen Cantrell
* 2014: Jeff Errington
* 2013: Tony Kouzarides
* 2010: D. Grahame Hardie
* 2009: Louise Johnson
* 2008: Stephen C. West
* 2007: Adrian Bird
* 2006: James Barber
* 2005: Alan Hall
* 2004: Jean D. Beggs
* 2003: Iain D. Campbell
* 2002: Michael S. Neuberger
* 2000: Kiyoshi Nagai
* 1999: Christopher J. Marshall
* 1998: Richard N. Perham
* 1997: Ronald Laskey
* 1996: John E. Walker
* 1995: Christopher F. Higgins
* 1993: T. Rabbitts
* 1992: Philip Cohen
* 1991: Paul Nurse
* 1987: Thomas L. Blundell
* 1985: E. A. Barnard
* 1984: Philip J. Randle
* 1983: George K. Radda
* 1981: I. Helen Muir
* 1980: Sydney Brenner
* 1979: J. B. Gurdon
* 1978: J. Rodney Quayle
* 1977: César Milstein
* 1976: Samuel V. Perry
* 1973: Peter D. Mitchell
* 1972: R. T. Williams
* 1971: D. H. Northcote
* 1970: D. C. Phillips
* 1968: William J. Whelan
* 1967: D. M. Blow
* 1966: R. R. Porter
* 1965: J. W. Cornforth and 
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