Catherine Draycott

Meet the judges who chose this year's winning images.

Catherine Draycott

Catherine has been Head of Wellcome Images, part of the Wellcome Library, since 1992. She has served as a Director of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies since 1997 and was its Chairman from 2000 to 2007.

She is responsible for the management and development of the Wellcome Images collection, which spans the history of medicine and civilisation from antiquity to the present day, with over 180 000 images available online. Since starting here, she has overseen the acquisition and development of a collection of 45 000 contemporary images combining clinical medicine and disease with biomedical science. She has been a judge of the Wellcome Image Awards since their inception in 1997.

Catherine Draycott