Academic careers

Professor Peter Rothwell FMedSci has been awarded the 2009 Foulkes Foundation Medal.

Awarded every two years, the Foulkes Foundation Medal brings recognition to an individual for excellence in research in the biomedical sciences and inspires and encourages others to pursue a career in biomedical research.

** Professor Rothwell will be giving his Foulkes Foundation Medal lecture at an event in Bristol on Tuesday 11 May 2010. **

Professor Rothwell is Professor of Clinical Neurology and founding Director of the Stroke Prevention Research Unit at the University of Oxford. He gained his PhD in 1999 after working for Professor Charles Warlow in Edinburgh on secondary prevention of stroke, particularly the risks and benefits of carotid endarterectomy. He was subsequently Lecturer in Clinical Neurology in Oxford and was awarded an MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship in 2000, allowing him to set up the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, which now employs over 30 staff and is widely considered to be one of the most successful stroke research groups in the world. His work has revolutionised the treatment of TIA and minor stroke, and his recent findings on the link between variability in blood pressure and risk of stroke and on the effects of aspirin on risks of cancer, infection and other non-vascular outcomes promises to have a similar impact. Professor Rothwell's contribution to medical scientific knowledge during his relatively short research career has been remarkable and there can be few more inspirational demonstrations of the impacts of research on clinical practice.

The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to be working with the Foulkes Foundation to recognise and promote excellence in biomedical research.

For further enquiries please email: nigel.eady@acmedsci.ac.uk, or telephone: 020 7969 5256.