New Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows

Congratulations to University of Edinburgh Staff: March 2014

The names of 53 distinguished individuals elected to become Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) were announced on 5 March. These outstanding people come from a wide variety of disciplines, spanning the arts, business, science and technology sectors. They join Fellows, past and present, who have strived to attain the RSE’s founding mission: ‘the advancement of learning and useful knowledge’.

Amongst these Fellows is Professor Andrew Jackson, a Programme Leader at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Also elected as a Fellow is Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Head of the School of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences at The University of Edinburgh.

Congratulations to both Professors Jackson and Cunningham-Burley on becoming Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.