MRC congratulates New Years honours recipients
9 January 2006
The MRC wishes to congratulate a number of figures from the field of medicine and biomedical research on their inclusion in the 2006 New Year Honours list.
Professor Graham Teasdale, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow has received a Knighthood for services to Neurosurgery and victims of head injuries. Professor Teasdale was a member of the Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (1988-1992) and held MRC programme grant support for many years to evaluate the early severity, progression and outcome of brain damage, by intensive investigations using monitoring and imaging of patients and in clinical trials.
Professor David Barker, University of Southampton, has received a C.B.E. for services to Preventive Medicine. Professor Barker was Director of the MRC’s Environmental Epidemiology Unit at Southampton University from 1984 to 2003. He was also a member of the MRC’s Physiological Systems and Disorders Board (1988-1993). In 1989 David Barker and his team at the MRC Unit discovered the relationship between birth weight and the lifetime risk for coronary heart disease.
Professor Alan Fairlamb of the University of Dundee Biochemistry Department has been awarded a C.B.E. for services to Medical Science. Professor Fairlamb’s career is devoted to the development of better treatments for tropical parasitic diseases through a comparative study of the biochemistry and molecular biology of parasites and their hosts. He was on the MRC’s Physiological Medicine and Infections Board from 1996 until 1999.
Professor Nicholas Wright, Warden of Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry received a Knighthood for services to Medicine. Professor Wright’s main area of expertise is liver regeneration from bone marrow stem cells.
Professor James Louis Appleby, National Clinical Director for Mental Health and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester has been awarded a C.B.E. for services to medicine. He leads two research units at the University: the Centre for Suicide Prevention and the Centre for Perinatal Mental Health Research. Since 1996 he has been the Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness.
Denis Doogan has received an M.B.E. for services to Medical Research. He has worked at the MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit in Edinburgh since 1964 before retiring in 2005. His expert work in animal husbandry has allowed the unit to carry out pioneering research in human reproductive health.
