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  ; Novartis Medal and Prize
  * 2021: Bart Vanhaesebroeck
  * 2019: Caroline Dean  
  * 2018: Laurence Pearl
  * 2017: Doreen Cantrell
  * 2014: Jeff Errington
  * 2013: Tony Kouzarides
  * 2010: D. Grahame Hardie
  * 2009: Louise Johnson
  * 2008: Stephen C. West
  * 2007: Adrian Bird
  * 2006: James Barber
  * 2005: Alan Hall
  * 2004: Jean D. Beggs
  * 2003: Iain D. Campbell
  * 2002: Michael S. Neuberger
  * 2000: Kiyoshi Nagai
  * 1999: Christopher J. Marshall
  * 1998: Richard N. Perham
  * 1997: Ronald Laskey
  * 1996: John E. Walker
  * 1995: Christopher F. Higgins
  * 1993: T. Rabbitts
  * 1992: Philip Cohen
  * 1991: Paul Nurse
  * 1987: Thomas L. Blundell
  * 1985: E. A. Barnard
  * 1984: Philip J. Randle
  * 1983: George K. Radda
  * 1981: I. Helen Muir
  * 1980: Sydney Brenner
  * 1979: J. B. Gurdon
  * 1978: J. Rodney Quayle
  * 1977: César Milstein
  * 1976: Samuel V. Perry
  * 1973: Peter D. Mitchell
  * 1972: R. T. Williams
  * 1971: D. H. Northcote
  * 1970: D. C. Phillips
  * 1968: William J. Whelan
  * 1967: D. M. Blow
  * 1966: R. R. Porter
  * 1965: J. W. Cornforth and 
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