Hescott-Meredith Memorial Award

A consortium comprising The James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee, Greenvale and McCain Foods was awarded the Hescott-Meredith Memorial Award, at the British Potato awards 2025.

The prize, which recognises cutting-edge scientific or research excellence in the industry, was awarded for the development and application of dRenSeq, a genome-reduction technology that informs researchers and breeders of the presence or absence of functional genes controlling diseases in potato.

The underpinning Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Industry Partnership Award research grant was led by Professor Ingo Hein at the University of Dundee