New Year’s Honours List
3 January 2012
The Medical Research Council would like to congratulate the following on their recognition in the 2012 New Year’s Honours list.
Knighthoods:
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Joint Head of Structural Studies Division, LMB). For services to Molecular Biology.
Professor Brian Greenwood (Professor, Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and former Director of the MRC Laboratories, Gambia). For services to Malaria Research in Africa.
Professor Patrick Sissons (Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge, and former member and deputy chair of the Physiological Medicine and Infections Board). For services to Research and Education in Clinical Medicine.
Professor Mark Pepys (Professor of Medicine and Head of Medicine Division, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital; and MRC grant-holder). For services to Biomedicine.
Professor Stephen Bloom (Head, Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Imperial College London; and MRC grant-holder). For services to Medical Science.
CBE:
Professor Trevor Robbins. (Director, MRC Centre for Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge). For services to Medical Research.
OBE:
Mr Lester Firkins (Chairman, James Lind Alliance, Strategy and Development; Co-chair of the MRC New Therapies Scrutiny Group for Prion Disease). For services to Medical Research.
Professor Jean Golding. (Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, University of Bristol; Former Director of ALSPAC, and former MRC grant holder). For services to Medical Science.
Professor Dianne Berry. Professor of Psychology, University of Reading, who is a former member of Neuroscience and Mental Health Board. For services to Scientific Research
MBE:
Mr John Wills (Assistant Director, MRC National Institute for Medical Research). For services to Science.
