Silver Medal

The previous winners of the award are listed below:

• 1994, Prof Michael Symonds, University of Nottingham, UK. Pregnancy, parturition and neonatal development: interactions between nutrition and thyroid hormones. 
• 1995, Prof Ilias Kyriazakis, University of Newcastle, UK. A solution to the problem of predicting the response of an animal to its diet. 
• 1996, Prof Michael Goran, University of Southern California, USA. Energy expenditure, body composition, and disease risk in children and adolescents. 
• 1997, Dr. James Stubbs, University of Derby, Derbyshire, UK. Appetite, feeding behaviour and energy balance in human subjects.
• 1998, Dr Susan Jebb, University of Oxford, UK. Obesity: from molecules to man. 
• 1999, Prof Aedin Cassidy, University of East Anglia, UK. Phyto-oestrogens through the life cycle.
• 2000, Dr Gema Fruhbeck, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. A heliocentric view of leptin
• 2001, Dr Susan New, University of Surrey, UK. The role of the skeleton in acid-based homeostasis
• 2002, No winner.
• 2003, Dr Parveen Yaqoob, University of Reading, UK. Fatty acids and the immune system from basic science to clinical application.
• 2004, Dr Paula Moynihan, University of Newcastle, UK. The interrelationship between diet and oral health
• 2005, Dr Simon Langley-Evans, University of Nottingham, UK. Developmental programming of health and disease
• 2006, Dr Patrick Schrauwen, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. High-fat diets, muscular lipotoxicity and insulin resistance
• 2007, Dr Amelia Marti, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, Interaction between genes and lifestyle factors on obesity
• 2008, Dr Anne Minihane, University of Reading, UK, Nutrigenetics: A useful public health tool or simply an expensive (insightful) research exercise
• 2009, Dr Jeremy Spencer, University of Reading, UK, Beyond antioxidants: the cellular and molecular interactions of flavonoids and how these underpin their actions on the brain
• 2010, Dr Sangita Sharma, University of North Carolina, USA, Development and use of FFQ among adults in diverse settings across the globe
• 2011, Dr David Gardner, University of Nottingham, UK, Development and the Art of Nutritional Maintenance
• 2012, Dr Jayne Woodside, Queen's University Belfast, UK, Fruit and vegetables: measuring intake and encouraging increased consumption 
• 2013, Professor Ulf Ekelund, Norwegian School of Sport Science, Norway, Physical activity, sedentary time and obesity prevention – a life course perspective
• 2015, Dr Denise Robertson, University of Surrey, UK. Dietary fibre and type 2 diabetes: from 'bacteria to benchside'
• 2016, Dr Wendy Hall, King's College London, UK, The future for long chain n-3 PUFA in cardiovascular protection – do we need to target nonfish eaters?
• 2017, Professor David S Sanders, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital and University of Sheffield, UK, Breaking Bread! 
• 2018, Dr J. Bernadette Moore, University of Leeds, From sugar to liver fat and public health: System biology driven studies in understanding non-alcoholic fatty liver disease pathogenesis
• 2019, Dr Mary Chong Foong Fong, National University of Singapore, Influences of the perinatal diet on maternal and child health in an obese world.
• 2020, Dr Vimal Karani, University of Reading, GeNuIne (Gene-Nutrient Interactions) Collaboration: Towards implementing multi-ethnic population-based nutrigenetic studies of obesity in lower middle-income countries.
• 2021, Dr Mario Siervo, University of Nottingham, for his research on 'Inorganic nitrate reservoir in skeletal muscle: a “glycogen-like” role to control metabolicvascular coupling'.