Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith is awarded the Buchanan Medal

Anne Ferguson-Smith

The Genetics Society is thrilled to congratulate our new President, Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith FMedSci FRS, on being awarded the prestigious Buchanan Medal 2021 by the Royal Society for “her pioneering work in epigenetics, her interdisciplinary work on genomic imprinting, the interplay between the genome and epigenome, and how genetic and environmental influences affect development and human diseases“.

Professor Ferguson-Smith’s achievement will be celebrated at the Royal Society’s Anniversary Day on 30 November 2021.