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Robin Lovell-Badge
British biologist
Robin Howard Lovell-Badge, CBE, FRS FMedSci 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.[2] They shared the 1995 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[3] for their discovery. He was awarded the 2022 Genetics Society Medal.[4] 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.[5][6]