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Professor Gideon Davies Highlights

Awards and honours

  • Centenary Award of the Biochemical Society, 2024
  • Rita and John Cornforth Prize of the Chemical Biology Interface Division, 2020
  • Queen's Anniversary Prize (to YSBL), 2020
  • Haworth Memorial Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018
  • Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor, 2017
  • Institute of Chemical Engineers Global Energy Award, 2016
  • Davy Medal of the Royal Society, 2015
  • Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2014
  • Khorana Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2010
  • Elected Member European Molecular Biology Organization, 2010
  • Gabor Medal, The Royal Society 2010
  • GlaxoSmithKline Award of the Biochemical Society, 2010
  • Proteins and Peptides Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008
  • Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2007
  • Whistler Prize of International Carbohydrate Organization, 2006
  • Corday-Morgan Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry 2001
  • "Dextra" Carbohydrate Chemistry Medal of Royal Society of Chemistry 1998

Plenary / Named Lectures

2022

  • The Eighth Symposium on the Alpha-Amylase Family - ALAMY_8
  • RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Group Postgraduate Symposium

2020

  • Joint Royal Society / Israeli Academy, Jerusalem

2019

  • RSC Haworth Memorial Lecture, Reading
  • Eurocarb, Leiden

2018

  • 43rd FEBS congress, Prague
  • 16th Iberian Peptide Meeting, Barcelona
  • Proteine18, Verona

 2017

  • Eurocarb2017, Barcelona
  • Life Science Forum, Moscow
  • GRC on Cellulases, Andover NH
  • Chains17, Veldhoven
  • Norwegian Biochemical Society

2016

  • Société Chimique de France JCO 2016
  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA
  • FASEB Molecular Glycobiology meeting, West Palm Beach USA

2015

  • Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology, Italy
  • International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry (ISBOC-10), Pune, India

2014

  • The EMBO Lecture of the XXVII International Carbohydrate Symposium, Bangalore, India

2013

  • Gordon Research Conference on Cellulases and related enzymes, Andover NH, USA

2012

  • XXVI International Carbohydrate Symposium, Madrid, Spain

2011

  • 16th European Carbohydrate Symposium (Sorrento) Plenary lecture

2010

  • International Carbohydrate Symposium (Tokyo, 2010)
  • 10th Carbohydrate Meeting of the Spanish Chemical Society (Granada, 2010)
  • GlaxoSmithKiline Award lecture (London)
2009
  • Choh Hao Li Memorial Lecturer (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Plenary Lecture at the 25th European Crystallographic Association Meeting (Istanbul, Turkey)
2007
  • Plenary Lecture at the 7th International Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (Braunschweig, April 2007)
  • Plenary Lecture at the 19th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates (Cairns, July 2007)
2006
  • Whistler Award lecture of the International Carbohydrate Symposium (British Columbia)
2005
  • Plenary lecture of the European Carbohydrate Organisation “Eurocarb” (Bratislava)
  • Keynote Lecture of the Alberta Carbohydrate Ingenuity Meeting (Lake Louise)
2004
  • Landsdowne award lecture of the University of Victoria
2003
  • Keynote opening Lecture Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (Groningen)
  • Keynote opening Lecture Gordon Research Conference on cellulases (Proctor Academy)
2002
  • Novozymes Plenary Speaker Japanese Enzymes Symposium (Tokyo)
  • Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC (University of York)
2001
  • Buergenstock conference on stereochemistry (Buergenstock)