Honorary Professor: Christopher Prowse

Christopher Verrall Prowse has been made an Honorary Professor.

After graduating from Merton College Oxford with a first-class degree in Biochemistry, he went on to do a DPhil there, before moving to the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS).

He has led research for the SNBTS since 1990 and has developed it from a regional group to one with a national and international reputation.

His own research interests include haemostasis, blood components, monoclonal antibodies, pathogen inactivation, virus detection and vCJD.

His research has led to more than 200 publications, around 50 grants and two books, and has involved collaboration with University of Edinburgh groups, including those of Professors James, Poxton, Clark, Wilmut, Ironside and Manson.

Professor Prowse also has a strong interest in education and has been involved in setting up Edinburgh’s Transfusion, Transplantation and Tissue Banking MSc programme.

He has also been an examiner for Bristol University, the British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS), the Royal College of Pathologists, the Health Professions Council, the European School of Transfusion Medicine and the Association of Clinical Scientists, and he organised the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) international congress in Edinburgh in 2004.

He is a member of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion, ISBT Transmitted Infection committees and chairs the UK Blood Service's Standing Advisory Committee on Blood Components.

He has been awarded the BBTS Kenneth Goldsmith, Royal College of Pathologists’ Oliver Memorial Award and the BBTS Gold Award, and is due to deliver the Iain Cook Memorial Lecture in Stirling in June.