| 2013 | The American Physiological Society’s Horace W Davenport Distinguished Lectureship, Experimental Biology 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 2012 | MRC Professorship and MRC Programme Grant renewed (2012 – 2017) |
| 2012 | Public (Inaugural) Lecture as Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, Halle, Germany |
| 2011 | Honorary Professor at College of Medicine, Jinan National University, Guangzhou, China |
| 2011 | Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales |
| 2010 | Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2010 | Appointed Chair of HEFCE’s Biological Sciences Sub-panel, REF2014 |
| 2010 | Appointed Member of the Welsh Government’s Science Advisory Council for Wales |
| 2010 | Lifetime Achievement Award, European Pancreatic Club |
| 2009 | American Gastroenterological Association’s State-of-the-Art Lecture, Digestive Diseases Week 2009, Chicago, USA |
| 2008 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in The Queen's New Year Honours list for 'Services to Science' |
| 2008 | Appointed Chair of the European Research Council's Starting Grant Panel LS4 (2009-2011) |
| 2008 | Keynote Lecture at 4th Covian Symposium, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2008 | MRC Professorship and MRC Programme Grant renewed (2008 - 2012) |
| 2006 | President of The Physiological Society, UK (2006 – 2008) |
| 2005 | Vice-President of The Royal Society (2005 – 2006) |
| 2005 | Plenary Keynote Lecture, 82nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, Sendai |
| 2005 | JA Young Memorial Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands, California, USA |
| 2004 | Elected Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2003 | Purkyne Medal from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic |
| 2003 | The Keynote Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Calcium Signaling, Mass., USA |
| 2003 | Chair of Physiological Review’s European Editorial Committee (2003 – 2011) |
| 2003 | MRC Professorship and MRC Programme Grant renewed (2003 – 2008) |
| 2001 | Secretary General of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) (2001 – 2009) |
| 2000 | Elected Fellow of The Royal Society (FRS) |
