David Baulcombe#
| Membership Number: | 2159 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2002 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/davidbaulcombe |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-6878 |
| Twitter: | @dcb40 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sep. 2007 - 2022 University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK; Regius Professor of Botany (2007 – present), Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor (2007-2022) and Head of the Department of Plant Sciences (2009 - 2017)
- Aug.1988 - Aug. 2007 Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK; Senior Research Scientist and Head of Laboratory (from 1990-1993 and 1999-2003), Professor of University of East Anglia (2002-7)
- Dec. 1980 - Aug.1988 Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, UK; Higher and Principal Scientific Officer
- Dec. 1978 - Dec. 1980 University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Post-doctoral Fellow
- Jan. 1977 - Nov. 1978 McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Post-doctoral Fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of a novel type regulatory RNA - siRNA
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Mendel Medal Genetics Society
- 2015 DSc (Hon) University of Leeds
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2015)
- 2015 Prize Medal Lecture, Society for General Microbiology
- (Jan 2015 – December 2017) President Biochemical Society
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate, Universities of Helsinki, Edinburgh (DSc) and Dundee (DL)
- 2014 Gruber Genetics Prize, Gruber Foundation USA (shared with Ambros and Ruvkun)
- 2014 The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies, Maize Genetics Executive Committee
- 2013 Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences Barcelona
- 2012 Balzan Prize
for epigenetics, Balzan Foundation, Rome
- 2011 Foreign Fellow, National Academy of Science, India
- 2011 DSc (Hon), University of East Anglia; University of Birmingham
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (elected 2010)
- 2010 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, Wolf Foundation Israel
- 2009 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
- Knight Bachelor, (Queens Birthday Honours list 2009)
- Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge (elected 2009)
- 2008 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation (shared with Ambros and Ruvkun)
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
- 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia (joint with Ambros and Ruvkun)
- 2008 Special Achievement Award, Miami Winter Symposium
- 2006 Royal Medal, The Royal Society
- 2005 Massry Prize, Massry Foundation – University of Southern California (shared with Fire and Mello)
- Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) (elected 2005)
- 2004 M.W. Beijerinck Virology Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Science, Wiley Foundation – Rockefeller University, shared with Fire, Mello and Tuschl)
- Academia Europaea, Member (elected 2002)
- 2002 Ruth Allen Award, American Phytopathology Society
- 2002 Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Kumho Cultural Foundation, Korea
- Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2001)
- 2003 - 2004 President International Society of Plant Molecular Biology
- 1998-2002 Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia
- European Molecular Biology Organisation, Member (elected 1997)
- 1990 Prix des Cerealiers de France for work on hormonally regulated genes of cereals
