In October 2010, The Times published a list of the 100 most important figures in British science in its Eureka science magazine. We are delighted to report that there were two members of Christ’s College featured in the list:

Number 30: Professor Sir Martin Evans (BA 1963, Honorary Fellow)

Martin Evans led the team that isolated embryonic stem cells for the first time using mice in 1981.

He was knighted in the New Year’s Honours in 2004 for services to medical science and has received numerous awards, such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies for their discoveries of "principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells". In 2009 he became the 22^nd President of Cardiff University, where he was Professor of Mammalian Genetics from 1999 to 2007.

Number 31: Dr Simon Campbell (Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellow)

Simon Campbell and his wife, Jill, are Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellows of the College and are committed to supporting students at Christ’s through the Simon and Jill Campbell Foundation they have set up here.

Simon Campbell was recognised in The Times’ list primarily for his role in the discovery of innovative new medicines such as Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra. He is a former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has received numerous awards for his scientific achievements. He retired as Senior Vice President for Worldwide Discovery and Medicinals, R&D Europe at Pfizer in 1998. He was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006.

We were also pleased to note that the University’s new Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz is number 47 on the list due to his legacy as Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. His main research interests have been viral immunology, infectious disease and viral-induced cancer; he was knighted for his work on vaccines