Professor Winston is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London and Director of NHS Research and Development for The Hammersmith Hospitals Trust, one of the UK's leading medical research centres. His research into embryology and genetics is internationally recognized, with the improvements he has developed in fertility medicine being subsequently adopted world-wide.
As a life peer since 1995, he speaks regularly in the House of Lords on education, science, medicine and the arts. He was the recent Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and is a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. He has been Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since 2001.
Professor Winston regularly presents BBC science programmes, including The Human Body, The Secret Life of Twins and Superhuman. His programme on DNA, “The Threads of Life” won the international Science Prize in Paris and the VLV Award for the most outstanding personal contribution to British television in 2003. His several publications about fertility and pregnancy also lead to him receiving the Royal society’s Michael Faraday Gold Medal in 1999.
Professor Winston recently handed over his Presidency of the council at the BA, having chosen the theme “Setting the agenda for science” for 2005.