Each year, CGS awards the Carter medal, which commemorates the life of the
late Cedric Carter, to a person
who has made an outstanding contribution to clinical genetics, and invites them
to give the Carter Lecture at the British
Society for Human Genetics annual conference.
| 2006 |
Professor Pat Jacobs (Southampton) |
A new look at old chromosomes |
| 2005 |
Professor Sydney Brenner FRS |
|
2004 |
Professor Dian Donnai (Manchester) |
Dysmorphology and development; from patient to
pathway |
|
2003 |
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (Leicester) |
Genetic fingerprinting and beyond: exploring human
genome diversity and instability |
|
2002 |
Professor Kay Davies (Oxford) |
Muscular Dystrophy – Past, Present and future |
|
2001 |
Professor Nicolas Hastie (Edinburgh) |
Wilms' Tumour and the WT1 tumour supressor gene:
Disease, development, evolution and multifunctionality |
|
2000 |
Dr Francis Collins (Bethesda, USA) |
Medical and Societal consequences of the Human
Genome Project |
|
1999 |
Professor John Todd (Cambridge) |
Genetics, aetiology, apoptosis and natural
selection in type 1 diabetes |
|
1998 |
Professor Kenneth Kidd (Yale University) |
The evolution of modern humans |
|
Professor Kidd was unable to give the lecture because of illness. It
was given by: |
|
1998 |
Professor Bryan Sykes (Oxford) |
The sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve |
|
1997 |
Professor Mark W J Ferguson (Manchester) |
Cleft palate - developmental mechanisms |
|
1996 |
Professor Paul Polani (London) |
Human and clinical cytogenetics: origins,
evolution and impact |
|
1995 |
Dr David Ledbetter (Bethseda, Maryland, USA) |
Molecular cytogenetics: filling the gap between
chromosome bands and single gene analysis |
|
1994 |
Dr Peter Rigby (London) |
Gene Therapy:- the present, the future and the
fantasy |
|
1993 |
Dr Timothy Bishop (Leeds) |
Genetic approaches to multifactorial diseases |
|
1992 |
Professor Robert Winston (London) |
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis |
|
1991 |
Professor Mel Greaves (London) |
The Aetiology of Leukaemia |
|
1990 |
Professor Peter Pearson (Baltimore) |
The use of database systems in genome analysis:
application in clinical molecular genetics |
|
1989 |
Professor Hans Galjaard (Rotterdam) |
The impact of human genetics on the twenty-first
century society |
|
1988 |
Dr Victor McKusick (Baltimore) |
The morbid anatomy of the human genome |
|
1987 |
Dr Alec Jeffreys (Leicester) |
DNA fingerprints and human genetics |
|
1986 |
Professor Friedrich Vogel (Heidelberg) |
Research strategies in human behaviour genetics |
|
1985 |
Professor David Danks (Melbourne) |
Of mice and men, metals and mutations |
|
1984 |
Professor David J Weatherall (Oxford) |
The Molecular Pathology of Thalassaemia: A model
for other single gene disorders |
