The 2025 BNF Prize winner: Professor Janet Cade
Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leeds
Professor Cade was nominated for: 'Her contributions to nutritional epidemiology and the advancement of measurements of food and nutrient intakes'
Previous winners
- 2024 Professor Glenn Gibson Professor of Food Microbiology at the University of Reading
- 2023 Professor Sir Michael Marmot Professor at the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity
- 2022 Professor Julie Lovegrove Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, University of Reading
- 2021 Dr Alison Tedstone Office of Health Improvement and Disparities
- 2020 Professor Gary Frost Chair in Nutrition & Dietetics at Imperial College London
- 2019 Professor Hilary Powers Professor Emerita of Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Sheffield
- 2018 Professor Sue Lanham-New Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Surrey.
- 2017 Professor Ian MacDonald Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham,
- 2016 Professor Susan Jebb Professor of Diet and Population Health, University of Oxford
- 2015 Professor Philip Calder Professor of Nutritional Immunology, University of Southampton
- 2014 Professor Keith Frayn Emeritus Professor of Human Metabolism at the University of Oxford
- 2013 Professor David Barker CBE (accepted on his behalf by his daughter Dr Mary Barker)
- 2012 Professor Sean Strain Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Food & Health (NICHE) at the University of Ulster
- 2011 Dr Ann Prentice Director and Head of Nutrition and Bone Health Research at MRC Human Nutrition Research
- 2010 Professor Jeya Henry Professor of Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University
- 2009 Professor John Blundell Professor of PsychoBiology at the University of Leeds
- 2008 Professor Ricardo Uauy Professor of Public Health Nutrition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and INTA University of Chile
- 2007 Professor John Cummings Emeritus Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School Dundee
- 2006 Professor Kay-Tee Khaw Professor of Clinical Gerontology, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
- 2005 Mrs Karen Barber Campaigns Manager, Food and Drink Federation
- 2004 Professor Tom Kirkwood Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle
- 2003 Dr Christine Edwards Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition, Glasgow University
- 2002 Professor John Mathers Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Human Nutrition Research Centre, University of Newcastle
- 2001 Professor Christine Williams Hugh Sinclair Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Reading
- 2000 Professor Michael Gibney Professor of Nutrition and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
- 1999 Professor Andrew Prentice Head of the MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- 1998 Professor Alan Jackson Professor of Nutrition, University of Southampton
- 1997 Dr Susan Fairweather-Tait Diet & Health Group, Centre for Preventative Medicine, University of East Anglia
- 1995 Dr David Buss Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- 1994 Dr Louise Davies Gerontology Nutrition Unit, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London
- 1993 Professor JVGA Durnin Emeritus Professor of Physiology, University of Glasgow
- 1992 Mr Nigel Hawkes Science Editor, The Times
- 1991 Dr Elsie Widdowson BNF Honorary President
- 1990 Dr Roger Whitehead Director, MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit
- 1989 Professor David Southgate Director, Institute of Food Research
