Sir Kenneth Charles Calman is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon,oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland,and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009,he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014.
Sir John Stewart Savill,FRS,FMedSci is the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and the Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and a Vice Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
John Gordon McVie was an international authority on the treatment and research of cancer. He wrote over 350 peer-reviewed articles,editorials and books. McVie was born in Glasgow,Scotland and died of non-Hodgkin lymphona and COVID-19 in Bristol,England.
The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow is one of nine veterinary schools in the United Kingdom,and offers undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in Veterinary Medicine.
John Anderson Strong was a Scottish physician/internist and academic,who served as Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Sir Alwyn Williams was a Welsh geologist,who was Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1976 to 1988,and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1985 to 1988.
Andrea Nolan,is Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Principal &Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University. In 1999,she was the first woman ever appointed to head a British veterinary school.
Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith,is a British geneticist.
Sir Gordon William Duff,is a British medical scientist and academic. He was principal of St Hilda's College,Oxford,from 2014 to 2021. He was Lord Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield from 1991 to 2014.
Thomas Jones Mackie CBE FRSE LLD was a noted Scottish bacteriologist;Dean of the Faculty of Medicine,University of Edinburgh;and author of medical research textbooks.
Thomas Ferguson Rodger was a Scottish physician who was Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1948 to 1973,and Emeritus Professor thereafter. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and rose to become a consultant psychiatrist with the rank of Brigadier.
Derek H. Sleeman is emeritus professor of computing science at the University of Aberdeen,Scotland,and visiting professor,in the School of Medicine and the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1992),the British Computer Society (1995),and the European AI Society (2004).
Sir Alastair Robert Currie was a Scottish pathologist,who was Professor of Pathology,at Edinburgh University,1972–86,and then emeritus. He was eminent in the field of cancer research and humanitarian causes.
Robert Crowe Curran was a British pathologist,Leith Professor of Pathology,Birmingham University,1966–1986.
Sir David Campbell MC FRSE was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. He was Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University from 1930 to 1959. He won the Military Cross in 1918 due to his bravery serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Edward Provan Cathcart was a Scottish physician and physiologist of international fame. The Cathcart Chair in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow is named after him. Together with John Boyd Orr he published influential papers on protein metabolism in humans. He is also remembered as Chairman of the Scottish Health Board Committee 1933-1936. The Cathcart Committee was critical to the Scottish input to the foundation of the National Health Service after World War II. His obituary described his as a "life well spent in the service of mankind".
Rhian Merry Touyz Koppel is a Canadian medical researcher. She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal,Canada,since 2021. A clinician scientist,her research primarily focuses on hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Professor Emeritus Sam H Ahmedzai FRCP,FRCPGlas,FFPMRCoA is a British supportive and palliative care specialist and an Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine.
Sir Herbert Livingston Duthie KBE,LLD,FRCS,FRCSEd was a British academic surgeon,widely known as Bert Duthie. His early research focussed on gastric acid output,large bowel motility and the pathophysiology of the anal sphincter. As professor of surgery in the University of Sheffield he became involved in large scale trials of the management of peptic ulcer disease. The latter part of his career was in an administrative role as Provost of the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff and as a member of the General Medical Council.
