He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary College, and holds honorary Fellowships of the Institute of Biology,the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He won the Edwin Stevens Medal (the Royal Society of Medicine) in 2003, was the North of England Zoological Society's gold medallist in 2004 and won the Al Hammadi Gold Medal at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2005. In 1999 he was awarded the Faraday Medal by The Royal Society and the BMA Gold Award for Medicine in the Media. He was Gold Medallist for the Royal Society of Health in 1998. His awards include a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship 1973-77, a Blair-Bell Lectureship RCOG, 1978, the Cedric Carter Medal, Clinical Genetics Society, 1993 and the Victor Bonney Medal for contributions to surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of London, 1993. He was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005. Robert Winston has been a visiting professor at a number of American, Australian and European universities. He is also Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University and Chairman of the Royal College of Music. He has around 300 scientific publications in peer-review journals on reproduction and embryology. Lord Winston is Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, runs a research programme in the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, on improvements in transgenic technology in animal models, with a long-term aim of improving human transplantation. This post-show event is sold in combination with a performance ticket. He joins us to lead a discussion on the science behind Chimera and his ground-breaking work in transgenic technology. Winston’s current research activities, a collaboration between researches at the California Institute of Technology and Imperial College, London, has a genetic focus with diverse aims that include improving the production of stem cells from embryonic tissue and reducing genetic abnormalities in embryos. His work revolutionized in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and the treatment of female reproductive diseases. Robert Winston’s early research contributed to a new understanding of the female reproductive system and some of the diseases that affect millions of women worldwide.