• John Sulston
• 2002-05-01
• Robert Burns Humanitarian Award

Sir John Sulston has devoted his scientific life to biological research, especially in the field of molecular biology. Sulston played a central role in the human genome sequencing project. In 2002 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz, both of whom he had collaborated with at the Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Sulston is now a leading campaigner against the patenting of human genetic information. In 2007 it was announced that Sulston will join the University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences and will chair Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation, a new research institute focusing on the ethical questions raised by science and technology in the 21st century.