13 September 2011

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for Dundee Professor

Professor Tracy Palmer of the University of Dundee has been appointed a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder.

Professor Palmer is one of 26 new Award holders named by the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. The scheme provides up to 5 years' funding after which the award holder continues with a permanent post at the host university.

Professor Palmer holds a Chair in Molecular Microbiology and is Head of the Division of Molecular Microbiology within the College of Life Sciences at Dundee.

'I am honoured to receive this award from the Royal Society,' said Professor Palmer. 'Our Division has done very well in recent months in winning recognition for the great work done here and I am extremely happy to add to that.'

Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract to this country or to retain respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential. The focus of the award is a salary enhancement, usually in the range of £10,000 to £30,000 per annum.

The newly appointed award holders are working on a wide variety of projects including atmospheric aerosols, weather and climate; time and extra dimensions in space; early human evolution in Africa; and the impact of systemic infection and inflammation on the aged and diseased brain.

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