WESTMINSTER ALUMNI AWARDS 2020
WESTMINSTER ALUMNI AWARDS 2020 Westminster Alumni Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of graduates from the University of Westminster, as well as from our predecessors including the Polytechnic of Central London and Regent Street Polytechnic. The awards have now been running for three years, and in that time they have highlighted the variety of ways our graduates make a real impact across the globe. This year, we received hundreds of strong submissions about the amazing things our alumni are doing, and senior staff from across the University had the challenging task of choosing just three finalists in each of our six categories. Almost 7,000 people from around the world then took part in a public vote to choose your six winners. Here we present the winners of the Westminster Alumni Awards 2020.
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER EVANS SCIENCE BSC, 1976
Dr Christopher J. Evans is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds the Stefan Hatos Chair for Neuropharmacology. He received his BSc from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1976 and his PhD from the Medical Research Council Institute and Imperial College in London. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University and accepted a faculty position at UCLA, where he continued his research on the opioid system. His research accomplishments have included the identification and characterisation of several novel endogenous opioids or endorphins/ enkephalins; the cloning of the first opioid receptor; and formative studies demonstrating opioid agonist bias. Dr Evans has published over 220 peer-reviewed publications, predominantly related to opioid neurobiology, and he has over 11,600 citations of his research papers.
