Academy of Medical Sciences elects fellows

The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected of 44 fellows for their contribution to medical science.

In a statement on 7 May the organisation says 12 of these fellows are women, representing 27 per cent of the total. It says this is “almost double the percentage of female professors in the biosciences”.

Among the fellows are Jon Nicholl, a health services researcher from the University of Sheffield; Barbara Casadei, a cardiologist from the University of Oxford; Tessa Holyoake, an experimental haematologist at the University of Glasgow; and Lionel Tarassenko, an electrical engineer at the University of Oxford.