Education
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. The Queen"s College.
Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. The Queen"s College.
He was the Charles Darwin Professor of Embryology at the University of Cambridge. In 1991, he co-founded the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute (now known as the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research United Kingdom Gurdon Institute), along with five other senior scientists including Professor Sir John Gurdon. In 2001, he founded the Medical Research Council Cancer Cell Unit in 2001, and was Director of the Unit until 2010.
Laskey is also a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Laskey received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours.
Laskey received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours. Other significant honours include the Royal Society Royal Medal, for his "pivotal contributions to our understanding of the control of deoxyribonucleic acid replication and nuclear protein transport, which has led to a novel screening method for cancer diagnosis", and the Cancer Research United Kingdom Lifetime Achievement Prize. 1984: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 1998: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. 2000: Tomorrow"s World award for health innovation. 2001: Croonian Lecture. 2009: Royal Society Royal Meda 2011: Received an Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for services to Science. 2014: Cancer Research United Kingdom Lifetime Achievement In Cancer Research Prize.
Royal Society.
