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Andrew Catto, senior lecturer in medicine,
has been awarded the Goulstonian Lectureship
by the Royal College of Physicians. Dr Catto
is an honorary consultant physician and MRC
clinician scientist who works in the academic
unit of molecular vascular medicine and the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. His interests
are in blood clotting in thrombotic vascular
disease.
Emeritus professor in child dental health
at Leeds Dental Institute Martin Curzon has
been awarded
the degree of doctor of science by the University
of Athens in recognition of his research and
teaching in paediatric dentistry in Europe
and the UK.
Professor Nigel Hooper, professor of biochemistry
and microbiology at Leeds, is among nine new
members
of the government’s spongiform encephalopathy
advisory committee. The committee provides
advice on diseases such as BSE and CJD.
Tom Lockwood, British Academy Post-Doctoral
Fellow in the school of English, has been
awarded the Review of English studies essay
prize 2003 . His essay, ‘The Sheridans
at Work: A Recovered Drury Lane Revisal of
1808’, is based on a manuscript in the
Brotherton Library.
Emeritus
professor Ian Ward has been awarded the Glazebrook
Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics
for his contribution to the structural understanding
of polymeric materials and the development
of innovative processing methods for their
manufacture.
Ms Jan Wilkinson – University librarian
and keeper of the Brotherton Collection –
has been appointed as the British Library’s
first head of higher education. She will take
up the post in July 2004.
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