Jim Parry Award Winner 2025: Anthony Lynch
- Post by: K.E.Chapman@swansea.ac.uk
- January 31, 2025
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Anthony Lynch is this year’s recipient of the Jim Parry Award. The Jim Parry Award is given to a senior scientist (and present or past member of UKEMS) who, in the opinion of the UKEMS committee, has made substantial contributions to the field of environmental mutagenesis. Anthony will be receiving the Jim Parry Award and presenting an award lecture at this year’s UKEMS Annual Meeting at the University of York.
Biography: Professor Anthony M Lynch BSc, PhD, FRCPath
Anthony is the Executive Director of Genetic & Investigative Toxicology at GSK and a graduate of the University of Wales, Swansea where he obtained his PhD in Genetic Toxicology working under the supervision of Prof. Jim Parry. His postdoctoral training was with Profs. Don Davies & Alan Boobis in the School of Medicine at Imperial College London and thereafter, Anthony was recruited by GSK to set up transgenic gene mutation assays. In the following years Anthony has taken on roles of increasing responsibility and he was appointed as Director of Genetic Toxicology in 2010, and to his current role in January 2024.
Professionally, Anthony has co-supervised 6 PhD students and numerous MSc/Industrial placement students. He has published more than 100 articles on various aspects of Genetic Toxicology, Mutagenesis, Carcinogenesis, and Photosafety. He has a long history with the UKEMS and was awarded the Young Scientist medal in 1998 and he is a past President of the society (2012-14). Anthony has also been an active research participant in numerous public/private partnerships, and he was a member of The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products, and the Environment (2007-16). In 2011, Anthony was appointed Professor (Honorary) at Swansea University Medical School, and he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2013.