Douglas Higgs

Professor Douglas Higgs is one of the UK’s most prominent hematologists at national and international levels. His excellent research has been recognized by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. Despite extensive administrative duties he continues to run an outstanding research group who regularly publish their work in the highest profile scientific and medical journals. He was recently awarded the Royal Society’s Buchannan Medal for Medical Research. Over the past ten years he has built one of the UK’s leading academic departments of clinical hematology with an excellent record of clinical research in malignant and non-malignant hematology, which is now recognized as one of the leading UK centers of excellence for training in academic hematology. He has recently widened his contribution to medicine, having been appointed as the Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (University of Oxford). Over the past 5 years he has raised over £45M in competitive grants for medical research.