* The winners of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award are: Avshalom Caspi of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London; Xiangqian Jiang of Huddersfield University; Varinder Aggarwal , Peter Green and John Rarity of Bristol University; Barry Carpenter of Cardiff University; Thomas Embley of Newcastle University; Philip Evans of Liverpool University; Kevin Gaston and David James of Sheffield University; David Hand of Imperial College London; Gideon Henderson and Phillip Maini of Oxford University; Herbert Huppert of Cambridge University; Andrew Huxley of Edinburgh University; Barbara Maher of Lancaster University; Jane McKeating of Birmingham University; Ivan Parkin of University College London; and Colin Stirling of Manchester University.