SBS Award given to Sir Philip Cohen
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee, has been presented with the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Achievement award.
Sir Philip received the honour at the 15th annual conference of the Society, held at the Lille Grand Palais in Lille, France last month.
The SBS award is presented at least every three years “to recognize outstanding achievements in research, innovation, ground-breaking foundation or seminal contributions that have proven to be broadly applicable to biomolecular sciences or pharmaceutical/agricultural lead discovery.”
Last year's awardee was Takatada Yamada, the Director of the Gates Foundation and previously the Chairman of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline. Among other former winners is the Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston.
Sir Philip was given a commemorative plaque and an honorarium of $US 5000 before delivering a lecture entitled “Protein Phosphorylation; my first 40 years”.
Commenting on the award Philip said, “It was a great honour to receive the really prestigious SBS Achievement Award. I am particularly pleased that it has taken place at the Lille Grand Palais, which I first visited 10 years ago when I came to watch my daughter Suzanne play for Scotland in the World Bridge Olympiad that was held at this venue.”
Philip flew to attend the SBS Symposium directly from Washington DC where he was inducted as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. The 146th NAS annual meeting also included an address from President Barack Obama.
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