NEWS & CONGRATULATIONS PROFESSOR SIR DAVID WARRELL, (Christ Church, 1958) Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, is appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to global health research and clinical practice. Professor Warrell was the founding director of the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit in Thailand, part of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health in Oxford, and its international Tropical Medicine Research network. Over the last 50 years, Professor Warrell has worked in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America. His research interests included respiratory diseases, relapsing fever, rabies, malaria, and venomous and poisonous plants and animals. PROFESSOR SIR CHRIS WHITTY, (Pembroke, 1985) received a KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath) in recognition of his role in battling COVID-19. Professor Whitty is the current Chief Medical Officer for England, the UK Government’s Chief Medical Adviser and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and Social Care. His academic career has seen him elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Gresham Professor of Physic and Professor of Public and International Health at the London School of Hygiene. DAME JUNE RAINE, Somerville 1971) has been appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her services to medicine and public health during the Covid pandemic. Dame June is currently Cheif Executive of the Medici es and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. (MHRA). PROFESSOR FIONA POWRIE FRS (Linacre College, 1986) Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences) and Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, is appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE), for services to Medical Science. Professor Powrie has made major contributions to our understanding of the immune system. Her early work provided very important support for the existence of regulatory T lymphocytes, adding very strong data so that it is now universally accepted. Turning her
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attention to the gut she has been a leader in working out how the bacterial content interacts with the immune system. Her scientific contribution is unique and has been transformational to our understanding of how the gut bacteria and the immune system interact. PROFESSOR RICHARD J HAYNES, (Magdalen College, 1997) RECOVERY trial coordinator, has been appointed MBE for services to Global Health. “I am excited, flattered and embarrassed to receive this honour. I am only receiving this because of the incredible efforts of my friends and colleagues in the RECOVERY team and wider university. I dedicate it to them, and to all our collaborators at hospitals in the NHS and around the world who have given themselves to this effort.” DR STEVE LOCKHART (New College 1977) has been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS). Fellowship is a prestigious honour and recognises Dr Lockhart’s contributions to medical science and the development of novel medicines. Dr Lockhart has had an outstanding career leading vaccine research. His most recent role has been dominated by COVID-19 vaccine development. He spearheaded the clinical development of the novel Pfizer– BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty(tozinameran), at record speed, with UK being the first country to approve the vaccine in December 2020. DR NIKITA VED of Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) is appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, Dr Ved is recognised for her vaccine outreach work as part of The 1928 Institute, an official Oxford spin out which she co-founded. The 1928 Institute was established in 2020 as a think-tank and continuation of the original India League (est. 1928). The not-for-profit is designed to research and represent British Indians, provide analysis on the emerging events in the Indian Sub-continent and within its diaspora, and be a platform for dialogue for the diaspora with the aim of disrupting ‘echo-chambers’. Please contact the OMA Team (oma@medsci.ox.ac.uk) regarding any news you would like to be considered for entry in the next edition of Oxford Medicine.
