New Year Honours 2008

9 January 2008

The following were announced in the New Year Honours list 2008.

OBE
- Professor Jean Manson – Head of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Roslin Institute

MBE
- Mr Edward Deverson – Head of Division, Estates and Facilities, Babraham Institute
- Professor Brian Kerry – Head of Nematode Interactions Unit, Rothamsted Research

Knighthood
- Professor John Bell – Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Professor Timothy O’Shea FRSE – Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Edinburgh
- Professor John Savill FRSE – Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Ian Wilmut FRS FRSE – Director, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine
DBE
- Professor Kay Davies FRS – Professor of Anatomy, University of Oxford
CBE
- Professor Brian Spratt – Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Imperial College London
- Professor Michael Ferguson FRS FRSE – Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Co-Director of Post-Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre, University of Dundee
- Professor Martyn Poliakoff FRS – Research Professor in Chemistry, University of Nottingham
CB
- Dr Deborah Reynolds – lately Chief Veterinary Officer, DEFRA