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April 2006
AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS & HONOURS
Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship: Professor Carol Dezateux (UCL Institute of Child Health), Professor David Isenberg (UCL Medicine), Professor Geoffrey Laurent (UCL Medicine), Professor Roger Ordidge (UCL Medical Physics & Bioengineering), Professor Trevor Smart (UCL Pharmacology) and Professor Andrew Tinker (UCL Medicine and UCL Pharmacology)
Aerosol Society of the UK & Ireland President: Dr Ian Ford (UCL Physics & Astronomy)
Austrian Academy of Science Austrian Cross of Honour for Science & Art First Class: Professor David Larman (UCL Mathematics)
Aventis Prize for Science Books Shortlist: Professor Arthur Miller (UCL Science & Technology Studies) and Dr Nick Lane (Royal Free & UCL Medical School)
British Cardiac Society Mackenzie Medal: Professor Salvador Moncada (UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research), in recognition of outstanding services to British cardiology
British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Award: Professor Nilli Lavie and colleagues (UCL Psychology), for the best paper in cognitive psychology by UK-based researchers published in the preceding two years
British Psychological Society Spearman Medal: Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Psychology)
British Society for Developmental Biology Waddington Medal: Professor Claudio Stern (UCL Anatomy & Developmental Biology)
British Society for Gene Therapy Annual Meeting Poster First Prize: Mike Blundell (UCL Institute of Child Health); Second Prize: Dr Karen Laurie (UCL Institute of Child Health)
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils Member: Professor Richard Catlow (UCL Chemistry)
Department of Culture, Media & Sport Human Remains Advisory Service Specialist Advisor: Dr James Steele (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Diabetic Association Bangladesh Honorary Patron: Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Institute of Child Health)
European Aerosol Assembly Junge Award Committee Chair: Dr Ian Ford (UCL Physics & Astronomy)
Fondation Ipsen 2005 Neuropsychology (Jean-Louis Signoret) Prize: Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (UCL Institute of Child Health)
GlaxoSmithKline Senior Vice-President, Drug Discovery: Professor Patrick Vallance (UCL Medicine), with effect from 1 May 2006
Help the Aged Living Legends Research into Ageing Award: Professor Linda Partridge (UCL Biology)
Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining Fellow: Professor Jonathan Knowles (UCL Eastman Dental Institute)
International Supercomputing Conference 2006 Award in the Life Sciences category: SPICE, principal investigator Professor Peter Coveney (UCL Chemistry and UCL Computer Science)
Kazakh National Technical University (Kazakhstan) Honorary Professorship: Professor Stefaan Simons (UCL Chemical Engineering)
Medical Research Society Young Investigator Award Second Prize: Dr Tom Jacques (UCL Institute of Child Health)
Royal Statistical Society Chartered Statistician: Dr Henry Potts (UCL Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education)
Royal Veterinary College Ethics & Welfare Committee Medical Ethics Advisor: Dr Ray Noble (UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women's Health)
Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal Book Prize: Professor David French (UCL History), for 'Military identities: the regimental system, the British army, and the British people, c. 1870-2000'
Thomson Scientific 2005 Top-Cited Research Paper in Cancer: ATAC trial in breast cancer, originated and designed by Professor Michael Baum (UCL Surgery), Joan Houghton (UCL Surgery) and Professor Jeffrey Tobias (UCL Surgery)
Visitor Studies Association Editorial Board Member: Dr Theano Moussouri (UCL Institute of Archaeology
UCL AWARDS & APPOINTMENTS
UCL Computer Science Chair of Computational Statistics & Machine Learning (formerly the Chair of Computer Science) and Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics & Machine Learning: Professor John Shawe-Taylor (University of Southampton), with effect from 1 July 2006
UCL Museums & Collections Director: Sally MacDonald (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology)