Adrian Bird#
| Membership Number: | 1074 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://birdlab.bio.ed.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - 2010 Governor of the Wellcome Trust
- 1999 - 2011 Director of the Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology in Edinburgh
- since 1990 Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- DNA methylation and CpG islands
- Epigenetics
- Rett Syndrome
- Genetics
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Gabor Medal
- 1999 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 2001 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 2005 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours
- 2008 Charles Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 2012 Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Prize
- 2013 Named a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate
- 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine "for his discoveries in the field of epigenetics"
- 2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award in Biomedicine
- 2014 Knighted
- 2016 Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine
- 2016 Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Charles Rudolphe Brupbacher Prize
- 2018 Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society
- 2020 The Brain Prize
