The Academy records with regret the death of the following Fellows:
2024
Professor Newell Johnson CMG FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2024, Emeritus Professor of Oral Health Sciences, King's College London
Professor Peter McGuffin CBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2024, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Genetics, King's College London
Sir David Cooksey GBE FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2004, deceased February 2024, Former Chairman, Frances Crick Institute,
Professor Peter Ghazal OBE FMedSci elected 2015, deceased April 2024, Chair of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, Cardiff University
2023
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins GBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2023, Hon Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Peter Machin FMedSci elected 2004, deceased January 2023, former Senior Vice President of Discovery, Research and Screening sciences, GlaxoSmithKline
Dr John Owen FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2023, former Sands Cox Professor, University of Birmingham
Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski FRS FMedSci elected 2000, deceased April 2023, MRC Clinical Research Professor, University of Oxford
Professor Jeffrey Pollard elected 2016, deceased May 2023, Professor of Resilience Biology, University of Edinburgh
Professor Anthony Nash FRSE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased May 2023, Emeritus Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh
Professor Michael Waterfield FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased May 2023, Emeritus Professor, University College London
Professor Jeffrey Watkins FRS FMedSci elected 1999, decased May 2023, Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol
Dr Henry Charlton FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased August 2023, Former Reader in Neuroendocrinology, University of Oxford
Professor Eugene Paykel FMedSci elected 1998, deceased September 2023, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Professor Nigel Stott CBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased September 2023, Emeritus Professor of General Practice, Cardiff University
Sir Ian Wilmut FRS FRSE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased September 2023, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh
Professor Philip T James CBE FRSE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased October 2023, Professor (Honorary), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Professor John Harrington CBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased November 2023, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine
2022
2021
Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2021, Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, University College London
Dame Fiona Caldicott DBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased February 2021, National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care, Academy of Medical Sciences Council Member 1998 - 2001
Professor Thomas Waldmann FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2007, deceased April 2021, Chief, Metabolism Branch, National Cancer Institute
Dr Tadataka Yamada KBE FMedSci elected 2002, deceased August 2021, Venture Partner, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Professor Alexander McNeish FMedSci elected 1998, deceased August 2021, Honorary Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham
Professor David Dunger FMedSci elected 2012, deceased August 2021, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge
Professor Sir Michael Peckham FMedSci elected 1998, deceased August 2021, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Cancer Research
Sir Dai Rees FRS FMedSci FLSW elected 1998, deceased August 2021, Former Head of the Medical Research Council
Professor Stephen McMahon FMedSci elected 1999, deceased October 2021, Sherrington Professor of Physiology, King's College London
Professor Malcolm Molyneux OBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased November 2021, Senior Scientist and Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool
2020
Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS FMedSci elected 2002, deceased January 2020, Director, MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford
Professor Oleg Eremin FMedSci elected 1998, deceased January 2020, Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham; Visiting Professor, University of Lincoln
Sir Michael Berridge FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased February 2020, Emeritus Professor, Barbraham Institute
Sir John Pattison FMedSci elected 1998, deceased March 2020, Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University College London, Academy of Medical Sciences Council Member 1998 - 1999
Professor Michael Clarke CBE FMedSci elected 2002, deceased March 2020, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Leicester
Sir James Gowans CBE FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased April 2020, former Secretary-General of the Human Frontier Science Program
Professor Nick Standen FMedSci elected 2001, deceased April 2020, Professor of Physiology, University of Leicester
Lord Robert May OM AC FRS FREng FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2005, deceased April 2020, Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford
Dame Ingird Allen DBE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased April 2020, Professor Emeritus of Neuropathology, Queen's University Belfast
Professor Geoffrey Burnstock FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased June 2020, Honorary President, University of Melbourne
Professor Roger Williams CBE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased July 2020, Director, Institute of Hepatology, Foundation for Liver Research
Professor Malcolm Lader OBE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased August 2020, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology, King's College London
Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedSci elected 2012, deceased October 2020, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Cambridge
Professor Sheila Haworth CBE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased October 2020, Professor of Developmental Cardiology, University College London
Sir Colin Dollery FMedSci elected 1998, deceased December 2020, Former Senior Consultant, GlaxoSmithKlein, Treasurer Academy of Medical Sciences 2001 - 2005
Sir Peter Lachmann FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased December 2020, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, University of Cambridge and founding President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Professor Barry Kay FRSE FMedSci elected 1999, deceased December 2020, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London
2019
Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 2000, deceased January 2019, Mathematician and former President of the Royal Society
Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2005, deceased January 2019, Biophysicist and for mer leader of the Laboraory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Baroness Mary Warnock DBE FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2011, deceased March 2019, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Champion, House of Lords
Dr Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 1999, deceased April 2019, Biologist, Salk Institute, California
Sir Stanley Peart FRS FMedSci elected 1998, deceased March 2019, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Queen Mary's University of London
Professor Thomas Jessell FRS FMedSci elected 2006, deceased April 2019, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University
Professor Sir Christopher Dobson FRS FMedSci elected 2005, deceased September 2019, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, University of Cambridge
Sir Alasdair Breckenridge CBE FRSE FMedSci elected 1998, deceased December 2019, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool
2018
Professor Alan Maynard OBE FMedSci elected in 2000 deceased February 2018, Emeritus Professor of Health Economics, University of York
Sir John Sulston CH FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 2003 deceased March 2018, Professor and Chair of the Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester
Professor Richard Wise FMedSci elected in 2010 deceased March 2018, Professor of Neurology, Imperial College London
Sir John Grimley Evans FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased March 2018, Professor Emeritus, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
Professor Michael Gelder FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased March 2018, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
Professor Douglas Altman FMedSci elected in 2011, deceased June 2018, Director, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford
Professor Frank Harris CBE FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased July 2018, Emeritus Professor, Association of UK University Hospitals
Professor Geoffrey Laurent FMedSci elected in 2006, deceased August 2018, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia
Professor Wendy Atkin OBE FMedSci elected in 2015, deceased October 2018, Emeritus Professor of Gastrointestinal Epidemiology, Imperial College London
Sir Roger Gibbs FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 2003, deceased October 2018, Former Chairman, Wellcome Trust
Dr Douglas Fleming OBE FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased October 2018, Director, Research and Surveillance Centre,
Royal College of General Practitioners
Professor Tim Evans FMedSci elected in 1999, deceased November 2018, National Director of Clinical Productivity, NHSI Productivity Division
Professor Sir David Weatherall GBE FRS FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased December 2018, Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Oxford University
Sir Donald Irvine CBE FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased December 2018, Chairman, Picker Institute Europe
Professor Colin Smith CBE FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased December 2018, Emeritus Professor of Oral Pathology, University of Sheffield
2017
Professor Geoffrey Raisman FRS FMedSci elected in 1999 deceased January 2017, Chair of Neural Regeneration, University College London
Professor Crispian Scully CBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased March 2017, Emeritus Professor, University College London
Professor Peter Wells CBE FRS FMedSci elected in 2005 deceased April 2017, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University
Lord Ernest Soulsby of Swaffham Prior FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased May 2018, Life Peer, House of Lords
Professor Patrick Johnston FMedSci elected in 2012 deceased June 2017, President and Vice Chancellor, Queen's University Belfast
Professor Osmund Reynolds CBE FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased May 2017, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, University College London
Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick DBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased August 2017, Former President, Royal College of Physicians
Professor Tessa Holyoake FMedSci elected in 2013 deceased August 2017, Professor of Experimental Haematology, University of Glasgow
Dr Geoffrey Schild CBE FMedsci elected in 2001 deceased August 2017, Former Head of Viral Products Division, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Professor Robin Eady MBE FMedSci elected in 2002 deceased August 2017, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Dermatopathology, King's College London
2016
Professor Frank Hubert Woods CBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased January 2016, Dean of the Medical School, University of Sheffield
Lord John Walton of Detchant FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased April 2016, Crossbench Independent Life Peer, House of Lords
Professor Keith Vickerman FRS FRSE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased June 2016, Emeritus Regius Professor of Zoology, University of Glasgow
Professor Harrison Spencer FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased August 2016, President and CEO, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, Washington USA
Dr Gordon Grieve Peters FMedSci elected in 2000, deceased September 2016, Retired, London Research Institute
Professor Sir Patrick Sissons FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased September 2016, Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
Dr Allen Roses FMedSci elected in 2003, deceased September 2016, Professor of Neurobiology and Neurology, R David Thomas Executive Training Center USA
Professor Alan Cuthbert FRS FMedSci elected in 1998, deceased August 2016, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 2003, deceased November 2016, Chairman The Kohn Foundation
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith CBE FBA FMedSci elected in 1999, deceased December 2016, Professorial Research Fellow, Birkbeck University of London
2015
Professor Barry Furr OBE FMedSci elected in 2002 deceased February 2015, Consultant, AstraZeneca
Professor Richard Perham FRS FMedSci elected in 2005 deceased February 2015, Emeritus Professor of Structural Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Dr Alan Hall FMedSci elected in 2004 deceased May 2015, Chair, Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Professor Christopher Marshall FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased August 2015, Chairman, Section of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Institue of Cancer Research
Professor Adrian Grant FRSE FMedSci elected in 2011 deceased August 2015, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen
Professor Jane Wardle FBA FMedSci elected in 2012 deceased October 2015, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University College London
Professor Lisa Jardine CBE FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2014 deceased October 2015, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London
2014
Professor Andrew Burroughs FMedSci elected in 2010 deceased March 2014, Vice President and Professor of Hepatology, University College London
Professor Michael Langman FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased April 2014, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham
Dame Julia Polak DBE FMedSci elected in 1999 deceased August 2014, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
Professor Robert Cohen CBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased October 2014, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of London
Sir Christopher France GCB FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased October 2014, former permanent secretary, Department of Health
Sir Henry Harris FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased October 2014, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
2013
Professor Brigitte Askonas FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased January 2013, Visiting Professor, Leucocyte Biology, Imperial College London
Sir Kenneth Murray FRS FRSE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased April 2013, Former BIOGEN Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh
Professor David Barker FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased in August 2013, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital
Professor Michael Neuberger FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased in October 2013, Deputy Director and Joint Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Dr Frederick Sanger OBE FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 1999 deceased in November 2013, Twice Nobel Prize winning Biochemist, Cambridge
Professor John Goldman FMedSci elected 1999 deceased December 2013, Emeritus Professor of Haematology, Imperial College London
2012
Professor Alan Cowey FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased December 2012, Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology, University of Oxford
Professor Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci elected in 2002, deceased 24 December 2012, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of York
Professor Griffith Edwards CBE FMedSci elected in 1999 deceased September 2012, Emeritus Professor of Addiction Behaviour, University of London
Sir Christopher Booth FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2002 deceased July 2012
Sir Alexander Macara FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased June 2012
Telegraph obituary 28 June 2012
Sir Andrew Huxley OM FRS HonFReng HonFRSE FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 1999 deceased May 2012
Professor Terry Hamblin FMedSci elected in 2002 deceased January 2012
2011
Professor Jonathan Driver FBA FMedSci elected in 2005 deceased November 2011
Professor Peter Richards FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased April 2011
Professor Dame Barbara Clayton CBE DBE FMedSci elected in 2000 deceased January 2011
2010
Sir James Whyte Black OM FRS FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow in 1999 deceased March 2010
2009
Professor Yvonne Carter OBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased October 2009
View Guardian Obituary of Professor Yvonne Carter
Professor Sheila Rodwell CBE FMedSci elected in 2001 deceased June 2009
Professor Philip Poole-Wilson FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased March 2009
2008
Professor Iain MacIntyre FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased September 2008
Professor Michael Emmerson OBE FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased May 2008
2007
Professor Brian Worthington FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased December 2007
Professor Peter Lipton FMedSci elected in 2006 deceased November 2007
Professor John Newsom Davis CBE FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased September 2007
Dame Anne McLaren DBE FRS FMedSci elected in 1998 deceased July 2007
Professor Roland Jacob Levinsky FMedSci elected 1998 deceased January 2007
2006
Sir Richard Bayliss FMedSci elected 1998 deceased April 2006
Dr Philip D’Arcy Hart CBE FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow1999 deceased July 2006
View biography by Tilly Tansey FMedSci
Sir Philip Randle FRS FMedSci elected 1998 deceased September 2006
Sir Martin Roth FRS FMedSci elected 2001 deceased September 2006
Professor Ian Mcdonald FMedSci elected 1999 deceased December 2006
2005
Sir Richard Doll OBE CH FRS FMedSci elected 1998 deceased July 2005
Sir Joseph Rotblat CBE FRS HonFRSE FMedSci elected Honorary Fellow 2000 deceased August 2005
Professor Nicholas Hales FRS FMedSci elected 1998 deceased September 2005
Professor Sir Richard Southwood DL FRS FMedSci elected 1998 deceased October 2005
Professor Barklie Clements FRSE FMedSci elected 2004 deceased November 2005
2004
Professor Robin Winter FMedSci elected 2001, deceased January 2004