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Sir David Charles Baulcombe FRS FMedSci (born 1952) is a British plant scientist and geneticist. As of 2017 he is a Royal Society Research Professor. From 2007 to 2020 he was Regius Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
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Gruber Genetics Prize, Gruber Foundation USA, 2014Balzan Prize for Epigenetics, Balzan Foundation, Rome, 2012Wolf Prize for Agriculture, Wolf Foundation Israel, 2010Knight Bachelor, Queens Birthday Honours List, 2009Sir Hans Krebs Medal and Lecture, Federation of European Biochemical Societies, 2021Mendel Medal, Genetics Society, 2017Prize Medal Lecture, Society for General Microbiology, 2015The McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies, Maize Genetics Executive Committee, 2014Lifetime Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2020Honorary Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2020Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, elected 2015Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences Barcelona, 2013Sir David Baulcombe is a leading expert in gene expression and epigenetics, and a former head of the Department of Plant Sciences at Cambridge. He has received many awards and honours, including the Wolf Prize, the Lasker Award, and the Gruber Genetics Prize.
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David Baulcombe is a renowned plant scientist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge. He has received many prestigious prizes and honours, such as the Gruber Genetics Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Lasker Award, and the Balzan Prize.
Edward Penley Abraham Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences. Sir David Baulcombe investigates the growth, development, physiology and evolution of plants depends on knowing how genes are switched on and off, using interspecific hybrids and disease resistance in tomato.
Baulcombe is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign associate member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Royal Medal, the Massry Prize, the MW Beijerinck Virology Prize, the Wiley Prize in Biomedical Science, the Ruth Allen Award and the Kumho Science International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and ...
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David Baulcombe is a bioscientist with a diverse interest in plant biology. David is credited with the discovery and characterisation of an RNA silencing system that protects plants against viruses. This system also affects the patterns of plant gene expression.
