With 12 scientists featuring in the list from across the Norwich Research Park - from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Univeristy of East Anglia and John Innes Centre - Norwich is placed fourth behind Cambridge, London and Oxford.
The study by Thomson Reuters published on the www.highlycited.com website is a measure of the exceptional impact that scientists are making globally.
From The Sainsbury Laboratory alone there are four scientists and six former members have been named in the top 1%. The scientists from The Sainsbury Laboratory are:
Professor Cyril Zipfel, Head of laboratory and whose research is on plant innate immunity to disease.
Professor Sophien Kamoun, who studies the biology of filamentous plant pathogens, including the pathogen responsible for potato blight.
Professor Jonathan Jones, who works on plant-pathogen interactions and the development of biotechnological solutions to important crop diseases.
Dr Joe Win, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Sophien Kamoun’s lab – Joe works on the pathogen responsible for blight affecting potatoes and tomatoes.
Scientists from the University of East Anglia are:
Professor Aedin Cassidy,whose research programme is focused on bioactive compounds present in plants, with interest in their metabolism, bioavailability and health effects, using a combination of cell/in vitro models and human studies
Professor Kerry Turner CBE, who works on environmental and ecological economics; ecosystem services; wetland valuation and management; coastal zone manangement, waste management.
Professor Phil Jones, whose research interests are in the field of instrumental climate change involving the analysis of instrumental series of temperature, precipitation and pressure measurements taken around the world.
Professor David Livermore, whose research centres on the development of methods to rapidly detect antibiotic resistant bacteria in patient specimens.
Dr Ailsa Welch, whose research focuses on understanding the importance of nutrition to ageing, with emphasis on musculoskeletal health, dietary fat & protein composition, minerals and acid-base balance.
Scientists from the John Innes Centre are:
Professor Alison Smith, who studies how plants metabolise sugars and starch and how these affect their growth and yield.
Professor Caroline Dean, whose research on vernalization – the period of cold some plants need in order to flower – is leading other studies at the John Innes Centre and around the world, including into how plants will adapt to climate change.
Professor Giles Oldroyd, who leads research programmes on how cereal and maize crops could be genetically modified to ‘fix’ their own nitrogen from the air as peas and legumes can, with implications for reducing artificial fertilisers and improving yield in the UK and in countries which do not have access to nitrogen fertilisers.
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