Robin Lovell-Badge

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Robin Lovell-Badge
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Lovell-Badge in 2017
Born(1953-06-14)June 14, 1953
Awards Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1995) [1] Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology (2010) Genetics Society Medal (2022)

Robin Howard Lovell-Badge is a British scientist most famous for his discovery, along with Peter Goodfellow, of the SRY gene on the Y-chromosome that is the determinant of sex in mammals. [2] They shared the 1995 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine [3] for their discovery. He was awarded the 2022 Genetics Society Medal. [4] He is currently a Senior Group Leader and Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute in Central London. [5] [6]

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References

  1. Louis-Jeantet Prize
  2. Koopman, Peter; Gubbay, John; Vivian, Nigel; Goodfellow, Peter; Lovell-Badge, Robin (1991). "Male development of chromosomally female mice transgenic for Sry". Nature. 351 (6322): 117–121. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..117K. doi:10.1038/351117a0. PMID   2030730. S2CID   3331979.
  3. Louis-Jeantet Prize
  4. Genetics Society Medal
  5. "Robin Lovell-Badge: Biography". The Francis Crick Institute.
  6. "Dr Robin Lovell-Badge FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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