| AdminHistory | Born 1938 ; qualified in medicine in 1962 at the age of 24 at the University of Cambridge ; left the UK in 1965 and spent 3 years in Western Nigeria at University College Hospital in Ibadan where he worked as a medical registrar and research fellow ; returned to the UK to train in clinical immunology for 3 years ; returned to Nigeria in 1970 and helped set up a medical school at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria ; developed latex test for meningitis ; carried out extensive malaria research and developed bed nets ; carried out research into developing a cure for Guinea Worm ; awarded Chalmers Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1977 ; moved to the UK Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia in 1980 which he directed for 15 years ; helped to establish a multi-disciplinary research programme that focused on some of the most important infectious diseases prevalent in The Gambia and neighbouring countries such as malaria, pneumonia, measles, meningitis, hepatitis and HIV2 ; contributed to malaria, pneumococcal, Hib, meningococcal, rotavirus, polio and hepatitis vaccine trials ; appointed Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987 ; awarded Donald Mackay Medal in 1991 ; awarded honorary doctorate at Uppsala University, Sweden in 1993 ; awarded Adesuyi Prize in 1995 ; appointed staff at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1996 ; Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine ; awarded Manson Medal in 2001 ; directed Gates Malaria Partnership from 2001-2008 ; won the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize in 2008 ; appointed Knight Bachelor in the Queen's New Year Honours in 2011 ; won John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in 2012 ; contributed to 54% drop in malaria rates in Africa between 2000 and 2013 ; has acted as an advisor to WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ; awarded the 2015 MRC Millennium Medal ; a Trustee of Malaria Consortium ; published over 300 papers. |