| June 2011 |
Elected a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences. |
| April 2008 |
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award – 5 year salary contribution |
| May 2005 |
The Lister Research Prize for Preventive Medicine – A £150,000 research prize. |
| October 2002 |
EMBO Young Investigator Award - Includes 45,000 EURO for lab and additional funding
for travel, invitation to EMBO events etc. Attended Lab Management Course in 2004. |
| May 2002 |
Merit Award for "Imaging the Construction of Immunological Synapses" presented after
plenary lecture at the XIIIth International Congress of Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics, Seattle, USA. |
| September 2000 |
Winner of the Oxford University Press/ Times Higher Education Supplement Science
Writing Prize. Prize was £2000 and Oxford English Dictionary. Essay published in the
THES. |
| 27-31 March 2000 |
One of six invited UK participants in a 'Workshop on Biotechnology and Genetic
Engineering for brilliant young British and German scientists', held in Bonn and Berlin. |
| 8 March 2000 |
Selected as part of the ‘Scientists for the New Century’ program by the Royal Institution,
London to present a public lecture on my research entitled ‘Natural Born Killers.’ This lecture
sold-out to over 500 people. Awarded life membership of the Royal Institution, London. |
| 1997 - 2000 |
Postdoctoral fellowship from The Irvington Institute for Immunological Research, a
charity based in New York. |
| 1997 - 1999 |
Supervised two students' research projects - one won the Hoopes Prize, given to the 50 best
theses throughout Harvard, and the other was placed in the finals of the US National
Westinghouse Competition the top prize being $40,000. |
| Apr 1994 |
Joint winner of national lecture competition at the Institute of Physics, London. Prize was
a trip to the International Conference of Physics Students held in St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| Jan 1994 |
Barber Trust travel award from Institute of Physics to attend conference in LA. |
| Aug 1993 |
Daphne award (£750) from Dame Alice Owen’s school. |