New Year Honours for Scientists
6 January 2009
The Medical Research Council congratulates the following people on their recognition in the New Year Honours list.
Knights Bachelor
• Dr Mark Walport, Director, Wellcome Trust. For services to medical research.
• Professor Neil Douglas, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. For services to medicine.
• Nick Partridge, Chief Executive, Terrence Higgins Trust and Lighthouse. For services to healthcare.
Order of the British Empire – DBE
• Professor Sally Davies, Director of Research and Development, Department of Health. For services to medicine.
• Professor Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton. For services to science and technology.
Order of the British Empire - CBE
• Professor Tom Kirkwood, Professor of Medicine and director, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University. For services to medical science.
• Professor Anne Glover, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland. For services to environmental science.
• Professor Ian Halliday, Chief Executive, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and President, European Science Foundation. For services to science.
• Professor Kate Costeloe, Professor of Paediatrics. For services to medicine in London.
• Dr Martin Raff, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London. For services to life sciences.
Order of the British Empire - OBE
• Professor Barry Hancock, Professor of Oncology, Sheffield University and Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to medicine.
• Dr Randal Richards, Lately Chief Executive, Research Councils UK. For services to science.
• Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Imperial College, London. For services to medicine.
• Professor Donna Mead, Dean, faculty of health, sport and science and professor of nursing, University of Glamorgan. For services to healthcare.
Order of the British Empire - MBE
• David Bullock, Electronic Workshop Engineer, Institute of Hearing Research, Medical Research Council. For services to science.
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