Francis Crick Medal for Professor Simon Myers

Many congratulations to Professor Simon Myers, Supernumerary Fellow in Bioinformatics and Professor of Mathematical Genomics, who has been awarded the Francis Crick Medal and Lecture for transforming our understanding of meiotic recombination and of human population history.

Professor Myers will receive a medal of bronze and a gift of £2000 at the prize lecture in December 2017.

The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Royal Society's fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.