The new Fellows, announced on Tuesday 21 May, have been recognised for their remarkable contributions to advancing biomedical and health sciences, groundbreaking research discoveries and translating developments into benefits for patients and wider society.

Awardees join an esteemed Fellowship of over 1,400 researchers who are at the heart of the Academy's work, which includes nurturing the next generation of researchers and shaping research and health policy in the UK and worldwide. The expertise of Fellows elected this year spans a wide range of clinical and non-clinical disciplines, from midwifery to cancer stem cell biology.

Professor Feder leads ground-breaking national and international research on domestic violence and abuse (DVA) from epidemiology to health care response. He is the architect of IRIS, a national DVA programme for general practice, and co-founded IRISi, a social enterprise implementing IRIS nationally. He has extended his research globally through EU and Medical Research Council grants, and co-leadership of HERA, a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Global Health Group in collaboration with researchers in Brazil, Nepal  Sri Lanka, and the occupied Palestinian territories (oPT).

Committed to developing and evaluating effective and compassionate health care, Professor Feder has championed the use of randomised controlled trials to test improvements in general practice care of patients with heart and respiratory conditions, and robust methods to develop and implement clinical guidelines that make a difference to patients. He extended epidemiological, trial and meta-analytic methods to research on gender-based violence, combining quantitative and qualitive data to evaluate interventions, collaborating with statisticians, epidemiologists, economists, and social scientists. He has chaired four NICE guidelines and the World Health Organisation (WHO) intimate partner and sexual violence guideline development group.