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Marshall Medallist – Henry Leese
Henry Leese graduated in Physiological Chemistry from Reading University. His PhD (Imperial College London) was on the effect of diabetes on glucose transport and metabolism by small intestine and he continued to work on nutrient absorption and metabolism as a post doc at York University. This was followed by a year at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich studying the enzyme lactase. He then returned to York and changed research direction to examine secretion by the female reproductive tract, and following a sabbatical in John Biggers’ lab (Harvard USA) in 1980, began work on metabolism in early mammalian embryos. He was given a Personal Chair at York in 1997. He has been awarded Honorary Fellowships by the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE: 2002) and British Fertility Society (BFS: 2010) and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG ad eundem) in 2003. From 1998-2002 he was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. He is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Human Fertility, produced on behalf of the BFS, the ACE, the British Andrology Society, the British Infertility Counselling Association and the Royal College of Nurses Fertility Nursing Group reflecting his belief that issues in reproductive biology and medicine benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. To this end, he organised the first joint meeting of UK Fertility Societies, including the, then, SSF in York in 1997. He has supervised 25 PhD students and teaches reproductive biology, human nutrition and metabolism to undergraduates and postgraduates in biology and medicine.
The Marshall Medal is the Society's premier award.
It was established in 1963 following the suggestion
of Sir Alan Parkes, to commemorate the life and work
of FHA Marshall. It was to be awarded "from time
to time by the Society to outstanding contributors to
the study of fertility and reproduction".
Previous recipients of this award are listed below:
- 2009 T Allen
- 2008 A McNeilly
- 2007 PJ Sharp
- 2006 APF Flint
- 2005 PF Watson
- 2004 JR Clarke
- 2003 HM Charlton
- 2002 RM Moor
- 2001 CA Finn
- 2000 RB Heap
- 1999 JM Bedford
- 1998 DG Whittingham
- 1997 DT Baird
- 1996 GE Lamming
- 1995 RV Short
- 1994 R Yanagimachi
- 1993 WK Whitten
- 1992 H Peters
- 1991 RG Edwards
- 1990 JD Biggers
- 1989 GD Thorburn
- 1988 EJC Polge
- 1987 GC Liggins
- 1986 RO Greep
- 1985 A McLaren
- 1984 C Lalor Burdick
- 1983 IW Rowlands
- 1982 A Nalbandov
- 1981 CR Austin
- 1980 C Thibault
- 1979 M Jackson
- 1978 Sir Dugald Baird
- 1977 SA Asdell
- 1976 T Mann
- 1975 C Gemzell
- 1973 H Bruce
- 1972 EC Amoroso
- 1971 MC Chang
- 1970 Sir Alan Parkes
- 1969 FWR Brambell
- 1967 HM Evans
- 1966 B Zondek
- 1964 CG Hartman
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