Professor John Ellis FRS, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Life Sciences, was awarded the Croonian Lecture Prize of the Royal Society for 2011 for his pioneering contributions to biochemistry, molecular biology, and plant sciences.

Professor Ellis presented his lecture entitled 'Molecular chaperones: how cells stop proteins from misbehaving' at The Royal Society, London on 31 May 2011.

For more information and to watch a webcast of the lecture, visit the Royal Society website