Election of new Fellows and foreign members

The election of the new Fellows and foreign members for 2008 took place at the business meeting for elections on Thursday, May 15, 2008. The president, Lord Rees of Ludlow PRS presided, supported by the Biological secretary, Professor David Read FRS and the Physical secretary, Professor Martin Taylor FRS

Fellowship: Professor Girish Saran Agarwal FRS, Noble Foundation chair and Regents Professor, Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University; Professor Dario Renato Alessi FRS, Professor of Signal Transduction, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee; Professor Michael Philip Alpers AO FRS, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Centre for International Health, Curtin University of Technology; Professor Fraser Andrew Armstrong FRS; Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford; Professor Alan Ashworth FRS, director, the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, the Institute of Cancer Research; Sir John Irving Bell FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford; Professor Jonathan David Blundy FRS; Professor of Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol; Sir Leszek Krysztof Borysiewicz KBE FRS, chief executive, Medical Research Council; Professor Alexander Marian Bradshaw CBE FRS, scientific director, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics; Dr Stephen Michael Cohen FRS, executive director and Temasek senior investigator, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore; Professor Fergus Ian Muirden Craik FRS; senior scientist, Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest; Professor David Elieser Deutsch FRS, Visiting Professor, Department of Atomic and Laser Physics, Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford; Professor John Duncan FRS, assistant director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; Professor Brian Foster FRS, Professor of Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford; Professor Russell Grant Foster FRS, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and Chair, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford; Professor Derek John Fray FRS, director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge; Professor Peter John Hudson FRS, Willaman chair in Biology, Director of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University; Professor Christopher Alexander Hunter FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield; Professor Stephen Philip Jackson FRS, Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and head of Cancer Research UK Laboratories, the Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, Cambridge; Professor Nicholas Kaiser FRS, astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii; Professor Mark Kisin FRS, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago; Professor Chris John Lamb FRS, director, the John Innes Centre and John Innes Professor of Biology, University of East Anglia; Professor Peter Simon Liss FRS, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia; Dr Jan Löwe FRS, senior scientist, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Professor Yiu-Wing Mai FRS, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, university chair and director, Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney; Professor John Charles Marshall FRS, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr Harvey Thomas McMahon FRS, group leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; Dr Anne O’Garra FRS, head, Division of Immunoregulation, the MRC National Institute for Medical Research; Professor Peter Robert Parham FRS, Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University; Professor Ian Parker FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine; Professor Michael Christopher Payne FRS, Professor of Computational Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Professor Laurence Pearl FRS, Professor of Protein Crystallography, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research; Professor Matthew Jonathan Rosseinsky FRS, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool; Professor Robert (Graham) Goodwin Russell FRS, Professor of Musculoskeletal Pharmacology, the Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford and honorary consultant, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford; Professor George Albert Sawatzky FRS, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of British Columbia; Professor James Floyd Scott FRS, Professor of Ferroics, Earth Sciences Department, Cambridge University; Dr Evgeny Konstantinovich Sklyanin FRS, reader, Department of Mathematics, University of York; Professor Philip John Stephens FRS, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California; Professor Claudio Daniel Stern FRS, Professor of Anatomy and head of department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London; Professor Michael Rudolf Stratton FRS, deputy director, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Professor of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research; Professor Roger Everett Summons FRS, Professor of Geobiology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor Ulrike Louise Tillmann FRS, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematical Institute and Tutorial Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford; Professor Kenneth Nigel Timmis FRS, head, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Zentrüm für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig; Professor Christofer Toumazou FRS, the Winston Wong chair in Biomedical Circuits, executive director and chief scientist, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London.

Honorary Fellowship: Lord David Sainsbury FRS, founder, Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

Foreign Membership: Professor J Michael Bishop ForMemRS, Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco; Professor William A Catterall ForMemRS, Professor and chair, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Washington; Dr Barbara Leonare Hohn ForMemRS, retired staff member of Friedrich Miescher Institute; Dr Ho-kwang (David) Mao ForMemRS, scientific staff, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Professor Peter Robert Marler ForMemRS, Emeritus Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davis; Professor David Mumford ForMemRS, University Professor Emeritus, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University; Professor Richard Royce Schrock ForMemRS, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr Susan Solomon ForMemRS, senior scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.