The Fell-Muir Award Committee have elected Professor Kim Midwood (University of Oxford) as the BSMB Fell-Muir Awardee for 2025, in recognition of her enormous contributions to both extracellular matrix biology and the BSMB. Congratulations to Kim! She will deliver the Fell-Muir Lecture and receive the Award at the 2025 BSMB Spring Meeting in Nottingham.
Kim graduated with a B.Sc. (HONS) in Biochemistry from Edinburgh University in 1995. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Pathology at Edinburgh University in 1999 under the supervision of Dr. Donald Salter, focusing on how changes in the extracellular matrix affect cellular signalling pathways in arthritis. She undertook postdoctoral training in the lab of Professor Jean Schwarzbauer, at Princeton University from 1999, continuing her work investigating the molecular mechanisms by which the cellular environment defines cell phenotype. In 2004 she established the Matrix Immunology group in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College London, moving to Oxford University in 2011.
Kim has been a member of the BMSB for nearly 30 years, serving on the committee from 2013-2023. She says: “I was delighted to learn that I would receive the Fell-Muir Award; it’s a great honour to join the ranks of previous recipients and I’m very much looking forward to talking at the Spring meeting this year”.
Jan. 7, 2025
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