CBE for Professor Alan Fairlamb

Professor Alan Fairlamb, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the School of Life Sciences, has been awarded the CBE for his services to medical science.

Professor Fairlamb, who heads the Division of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology, is a world-renowned specialist in the biochemistry of tropical diseases. He is one of the leading researchers involved with the University's recently launched programme of drug discovery for tropical diseases, primarily aimed at African sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and leishmaniasis.

The CBE completes a hat-trick of honours for Professor Fairlamb. In 2005 he was also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and awarded the Kitasato Medal for Microbial Chemistry, one of the most notable awards in his field.

"It is indeed a great honour to receive such a prestigious award," Profressor Fairlamb said of his CBE. "I hope that this will highlight the need for better, safer and cheaper drugs to treat these neglected diseases of the poor."

"I have always been passionate about easing the suffering of people living in tropical areas of the world. My basic research has never lost sight of the need to discover better treatments for these terrible diseases. Improving people's health is one way of helping to reduce poverty that is such a blight on the developing world."