Robin Lovell badge

Robin H. Lovell-Badge CBE (* 1953 ) is a British geneticist and embryologist.

Lovell-Badge received his PhD in Embryology from University College London in 1978 and was a post-doctoral student in Cambridge and at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris. In 1982 he became group leader at the MRC Mammalian Development Union at University College London and in 1988 group leader and from 1993 department leader at the National Institute for Medical Research of the MRC in London. From 2015 he is group leader at the newly founded Francis Crick Institute in London.

With Peter N. Goodfellow he discovered the sex determining region of Y (SRY Gen), a sex-determining gene that codes for a transcription factor of the same name, which belongs to the group of HMG proteins that bind to DNA . He continues to research the genes involved in sex determination (mostly those of the Sox family), mainly on the mouse model and on chickens.

In 1995 he and Goodfellow received the Louis Jeantet Prize for the discovery of the SRY gene, and in 1997 they both received the Amory Prize . He also received the Feldberg Foundation Prize in 2008 .

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SURNAME	Lovell badge, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lovell badge, Robin H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British geneticist and embryologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1953