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Sir Philip Cohen receives the SBS Achievement Award
Professor Sir Philip Cohen, Director of SCILLS 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,
which was held at the Lille Grand Palais in Lille, France on 29 April 2009.
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 received a commemorative plaque and an honorarium of $US
5000 before delivering a lecture entitled “Protein Phosphorylation;
my first 40 years”. He gave a second lecture at the SBS conference
on “Targeting protein kinases for the treatment of chronic inflammatory
diseases.”
Commenting on the award Philip said, “It is 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
on the evening of April 25th. The 146th NAS annual meeting also included
an address from President Barack Obama.
University of Dundee