Submitted by Administrator on Wed, 11/12/2013 - 14:56
4 February 2010
Professor Mark Field of the Department of Pathology has been awarded the CA Wright Memorial Medal by the British Society of Parasitology.
Prof Field and his group study intracellular transport mechanisms in protozoan parasites, particularly trypanosomes, with a view to understanding how these mechanisms contribute to disease mechanisms, as well as for the identification of novel therapeutics.
The CA Wright medal has been given annually since 1985 to a member of the British Society of Parasitology to recognise their outstanding contribution to the discipline of parasitology. The recipient is a scientist in mid-career who, it is considered, will confirm their already outstanding achievements to become a truly distinguished future leader of their field. This sentiment is in keeping with the encouragement of younger parasitologists by Chris Wright, Director of the Experimental Taxonomy Unit at the Natural History Museum, London, UK and the Society's President until 1983, and in whose memory a commemorative medal was instigated.
The medal will be presented to Professor Field at a medalist lecture on 31 March at the BSP’s annual meeting, this year taking place in Cardiff.