Science & Medicine
Extraordinary breakthroughs in science and medicine wrought change throughout 2015: Major Tim Peake became the first British ESA astronaut in space, while revolutionary gene editing techniques brought about a reversal in a little girl’s leukaemia. With modern lifestyle factors and new diseases posing ever-evolving threats to our health, we are more reliant than ever on the talents and innovations of the many doctors, nurses and administrators that make up our health service, while the pioneering research and discoveries of our scientists and scientific institutions continue to chart new and thrilling territory for the next generation.
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Professor Brian Cox, OBE
Presenter and Physicist -
Professor Jane Dacre
President, Royal College of Physicians -
Prof the Lord Darzi of Denham, OM, KBE, PC
Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery, Imperial College London -
Dame Sally Davies, DBE
Chief Medical Officer for England -
Professor Jeremy Farrar, OBE
Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director, Wellcome Trust -
Stephen Hawking, CH, CBE
Theoretical Physicist and Author -
Sir Paul Nurse
Director, Francis Crick Institute -
Lord Martin Rees of Ludlow, kt, OM
Astronomer Royal -
Dame Nancy Rothwell, DBE, DL
President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester -
Professor Sir Mark Walport
Government Chief Scientific Adviser -
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE
Astrophysicist and President, Royal Society of Edinburgh -
Janet Davies
Chief Executive, Royal College of Nursing -
Dame Athene Donald
Physicist and President, British Science Association -
Professor Alice Gast
President, Imperial College -
Sir Harpal Kumar
CEO, Cancer Research UK -
Dr Aseem Malhotra
Cardiologist and Founding Member, Action on Sugar -
Major Tim Peake
ESA Astronaut -
Professor Peter Piot
Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine -
Professor Waseem Qasim
Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy, UCL ICH and Consultant Immunologist, GOSH -
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan
President, Royal Society
