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Our donors

Since The Royal Society’s founding in 1660, philanthropy has played a vital role in establishing us as an independent voice for the promotion of science. Today our supporters continue that tradition, ensuring that the Society can foster a future which advances excellence in global science for the benefit of humanity. 

The Society would like to thank the following generous individuals and organisations, as well as those who wish to remain anonymous, who have supported our work over the past financial year (2025-2026). 

Thank you. 

Fellows and Friends of the Royal Society  

Sir Adrian Bird CBE FMedSci FRS 
Mr Alexander Laws 
Mr Alexander Rance 
Professor Angela Vincent FMedSci FRS 
Sir Antony Hoare FREng FRS 
Mr Bearj Depoyian 
Mr Craig Lilley 
Dr Edward Owusu-Ansah 
Lady Fiona Wilson 
Sir Geoffrey Allen FREng FRS 
Professor James Naismith FMedSci FRS 
Ms Jennifer Cormack 
Sir Jim Smith FMedSci FRS 
Mr John Hare 
Professor John Willis FRS 
Mr Joshua Heames 
Dame Kate Bingham DBE FMedSci HonFREng FRS 
Miss Katherine Haswell 
Dr Kym O'Brien 
Mr Luca Facchino 
Professor Martin Vessey CBE FMedSci FRS 
Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FREng FRS 
Professor Mary Rees FRS 
Mr Matthew Slate 
Professor Michael McIntyre FRS 
In memory of Lt Col Peter Clayton 
Miss Sabrina Dodds 
Mr Stefan Young 
Mrs Tracey Olsen 
Mr Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 
Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE FMedSci FRS 
Sir Walter Bodmer FMedSci FRS 
Professor William Nix FRS 

Fellows and American Friends of the Royal Society 

Dr Ad Bax FRS
Dr Alan Smith CBE FRS
Professor Andrew Knoll FRS
Professor Andrew McMahon FRS
Professor Anthony Movshon FRS
Professor Barbara Imperiali FRS
Professor Brigid Hogan FRS
Professor Bruce Stillman AO FRS 
Professor Carl Wunsch FRS 
Professor Carla Shatz FRS 
Professor David Aldous FRS 
Professor David Tilman FRS 
Professor Edward Witten FRS 
Professor Eli Yablonovitch FRS 
Professor Elliot Meyerowitz FRS 
Professor Emily A. Carter FRS 
Dr Gurdev Khush FRS 
Professor Harold Varmus FRS 
Professor Harry Gray FRS 
Professor John Kuriyan FRS 
Professor Joseph Goldstein FRS 
Professor Kamal Bawa FRS 
Professor Karen Vogtmann FRS 
Dr Marcia McNutt FRS 
Professor Stan Whittingham FRS 
Professor Morgan Sheng FMedSci FRS 
Professor Nigel Grindley FRS 
Omenn-Darling Family Advised Fund 
Professor Peter McCullagh FRS 
Sir Richard Roberts FRS 
Dr Richard Wood FRS 
Professor Richard Zare FRS 
Professor Robert Birgeneau FRS 
Professor Robert Fettiplace FRS 
Professor Ruth Lehmann FRS 
Professor Simon Tavaré FMedSci FRS 
Professor Stephen Harrison FRS 
Professor Stephen Pope FRS 
Professor Stuart Russell OBE FRS 
Dr Swee Lay Thein FMedSci FRS 
The Martin Family Charitable Fund 
Professor Tom W. Muir FRS 
Professor Tony Hunter FRS 
Professor Vincent Poor FREng FRS

Organisations

AFRS American Friends of the Royal Society 
EP Abraham Cephalosporin Fund 
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) 
Institute of Mathematics & its Applications 
Jaguar Land Rover Limited 
K.C. Wong Education Foundation 
L'Oreal (UK) Limited 
Sino-British Fellowship Trust 
Tata Consultancy Services Limited 
Tata Sons Private Limited 
The Julia Rausing Trust 
The Leverhulme Trust 
The R N and G Maini Charitable Trust 
The Wolfson Foundation 
The Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation 
Trivedi Family Foundation 

Legacies

Sir Anthony Epstein CBE FMedSci FRS 
Dr Elizabeth Graham 
Professor Max Hammerton 
Patricia Nicholson 
Mrs Shirley Zangwill 
Professor Stephen Halford FRS 
Dr Steve Jones 
Professor Thomas Cavalier-Smith FRS

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