Robin Lovell-Badge

{{Short description|British biologist}}

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| awards = Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1995)[https://www.jeantet.ch/en/prix-louis-jeantet/laureats/1995-en/doctor-robin-h-lovell-badge/ Louis-Jeantet Prize] [http://bsdb.org/awards/the-waddington-medal/ Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology (2010) ] [https://genetics.org.uk/news/genetics-society-medal-2022-prof-robin-lovell-badge/ Genetics Society Medal (2022) ]

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Robin Howard Lovell-Badge is a British scientist most famous for his discovery, along with Peter Goodfellow, of the SRY gene on the Y-chromosome that is the determinant of sex in mammals.{{cite journal|last1=Koopman|first1=Peter|last2=Gubbay|first2=John|last3=Vivian|first3=Nigel|last4=Goodfellow|first4=Peter|last5=Lovell-Badge|first5=Robin|title=Male development of chromosomally female mice transgenic for Sry|journal=Nature|year= 1991|volume=351|issue=6322|pages=117–121|doi=10.1038/351117a0|pmid=2030730|bibcode=1991Natur.351..117K|s2cid=3331979 }} They shared the 1995 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[https://www.jeantet.ch/en/prix-louis-jeantet/laureats/1995-en/doctor-robin-h-lovell-badge/ Louis-Jeantet Prize] for their discovery. He was awarded the 2022 Genetics Society Medal.[https://genetics.org.uk/news/genetics-society-medal-2022-prof-robin-lovell-badge/ Genetics Society Medal] He is currently a Senior Group Leader and Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute in Central London.{{cite web|title=Robin Lovell-Badge: Biography|url=http://www.crick.ac.uk/research/a-z-researchers/researchers-k-o/robin-lovell-badge/biography/|website=The Francis Crick Institute|date=12 February 2025 }}{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117114257/https://royalsociety.org/people/robin-lovell-badge-11839/|archivedate=2015-11-17|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/robin-lovell-badge-11839/|title=Dr Robin Lovell-Badge FMedSci FRS|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |accessdate=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archivedate=September 25, 2015 }}}}