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Weatherall Lecture

The annual Weatherall Lecture was established in 2012, in honor of Prof Sir David Weatherall, founder of the MRC WIMM. This lecture takes place at the annual MRC WIMM away day.

Upcoming Lectures

2026	TBC	TBC

Past lectures

2025	Lotte Bjerre Knudsen Novo Nordisk A/S	GLP-1: Lessons Learned and New Horizons for Therapeutic Innovation
2024	Jason Chin MRC LMB/University of Cambridge, UK	*Reprogramming the Genetic Code*
2023	Lalita Ramakrishnan MRC LMB/University of Cambridge, UK	*Lessons about TB pathogenesis and treatment from the zebrafish*
2019	Richard Henderson MRC LMB, UK	*The electron cryomicroscopy revolution in structural biology*
2018	Aviv Regev Broad Institute, USA	*Towards a Human Cell Atlas*
2017	Hans Clevers Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands	*Stem cell-grown organoids as models for human disease*
2016	Irving Weissman Stanford University, USA
2015	Paul Nurse Francis Crick Institute, UK	*A lecture in two halves, making science work and controlling the cell cycle*
2014	Stuart Orkin Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA	*Bringing genetics and epigenetics to fetal hemoglobin*
2013	Jules Hoffmann University of Strasbourg, France	*The innate immune response: phylogenetic perspectives*
2012	Kim Nasmyth University of Oxford, UK	*How does cohesing embrace DNA and then let go?*