Three Dundee Professors elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Three Dundee professors are among a group of outstanding academics recently recognised as being some of the best minds in Scotland and around the world by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The three elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh are:

Paul Crocker, Professor in Glycoimmunology in the School of Life Sciences, Andrew Morris, Professor of Diabetic Medicine in the School of Medicine, and Paul Boyle, Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Professor Crocker is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science in the School of Life Sciences. His research is focussed on understanding the biological basis behind the immune response to foreign invaders and autoimmune diseases.

Professor Morris is Chair of Diabetic Medicine at the University and appointed by the Minister for Health and Community Care in 2002 to be Lead Clinician for Diabetes in Scotland. He also chairs the Generation Scotland Scientific Committee that oversees a ground-breaking £4.4M Scotland-wide research collaboration looking at the ways genetic and lifestyle factors cause cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

Professor Boyle is an Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Dundee and a Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include geographical health and demographic issues and he heads the Social Dimensions of Health Institute - a joint project between Dundee and St Andrews. A detailed piece about the SDHI appears on page XX of the current issue of Contact.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) recognises the outstanding achievements of more than sixty individuals by electing them to its Fellowship. Fellows are chosen in recognition of extremely significant contributions to their fields and achievement in public service.

A broad spectrum of expertise was represented in the new list of Fellows and the three Dundee academics were recognised alongside twice Pulitzer Prize winner, Bernard Bailyn, Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty, former head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Lord Kerr, and the former president of the Royal Society of London, Lord May of Oxford.