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In Brief
New Fellows Both join 70 colleagues from Imperial who already belong to the
fellowship and may use the designation FMedSci. Elected Book shortlisted The £10,000 prize is managed by the UK's science academy,
the Royal Society. Author and one of the judges, Terry Pratchett,
was particularly struck by a passage in Mutants. "The thing that really fascinated me was about the early days in
the development of the embryo when it's not much more than a
handful of cells," he said. "The whole thing seemed to unfold in my
mind like a movie." The reader in evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial
will find out next month whether he has won the prize. Awards Professor Larry Hench, materials, has received the International
Ceramics Prize for 2004 - awarded every four years by the
International Academy of Ceramics, for a lifetime accomplishment in
using ceramics to improve the quality of life for people throughout
the world. Professor Barry Kay, allergy and clinical immunology, Royal
Brompton campus, was the 2004 recipient of the American Academy of
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Honorary Fellow Award, 'in
recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding
of the pathogenesis of allergic diseases and asthma throughout his
highly productive career.'
Fellows elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences last month,
include Nicholas Franks, head of biophysics and Robert Sinden,
professor of parasite cell biology, department of biological
sciences, South Kensington campus.
Aldo R Boccaccini, reader in materials science in the department
of materials, has been elected Fellow of the Institute of
Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK. The prestigious grade of Fellow
of IOM3 is open to those who have an established reputation in the
science and engineering of materials, minerals or mining and are
recognised experts in a significant field of materials science.
The Armand Lerois book, Mutants, has been put on the
final six shortlist for the Aventis Science Book prize .
Professor Jeremy Nicholson, head of biological chemistry,
biomedical sciences division, faculty of medicine, has been awarded
the Royal Society of Chemistry Silver Medal for Chemical Biology
for his pioneering work on the application of high resolution NMR
spectroscopy and chemometrics to the study of drug metabolism,
biofluid chemistry and metabonomics.
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