We are delighted to congratulate the eleven Fellows recognised in the recent New Year's Honours list.
Knight Bachelor:
Dr Jeremy Farrar OBE FRS FMedSci
Director, The Wellcome Trust.
For services to Global Health.
Professor Michael Ferguson CBE FRS FMedSci
Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.
For services to Science.
Professor Melvyn Greaves FRS FMedSci
Founding Director, Centre for Evolution and Cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research.
For services to Childhood Leukaemia Research.
Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
For services to Science and the Development of High Speed DNA Sequencing Technology.
Professor Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci
Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government.
For services to Open Clinical Science.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire:
Professor Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci
Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
For services to Computational Genomics and Leadership across the Life Sciences.
Professor Richard Hobbs FMedSci
Professor of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford.
For services to Medical Research.
Professor Iain McInnes FRSE FMedSci
Professor of Medicine and Director, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow.
For services to Medicine.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire:
Professor David Cunningham FMedSci
Director of Clinical Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
For services to Cancer Treatment and Research.
Professor Ian Deary FRSE FBA FMedSci
Professor of Differential Psychology and Director, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh.
For services to the Social Sciences.
Professor Jonathan Seckl FRSE FMedSci
Professor of Molecular Medicine and Vice Principal, Planning, Resources and Research Policy, University of Edinburgh.
For services to Endocrinology.
Further information and the full list of honours is available from the official website.