Queen’s Birthday Honours

Knights Bachelor

Professor David Baulcombe
Awarded for services to Plant Science

David Baulcombe is a Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Trinity College. He is a plant scientist and geneticist with interests in genetic regulation, genetic disease resistance and gene silencing. Together with Andrew Hamilton he discovered the small interfering RNA that is the specificity determinant in RNA-mediated gene silencing and, with other members of his research group, he helped unravel the importance of small interfering RNA in defence against viruses and in epigenetics. For this discovery Professor Baulcombe was honoured with the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

CBE

Dr Kate Pretty
Awarded for services to Higher Education

Dr Kate Pretty is currently the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy. She is an active archaeologist specialising in the early medieval period and is President of the Council for British Archaeology. Dr Pretty is Principal of Homerton College where she has been since 1991. Prior to Homerton she was Senior Tutor at New Hall, where she had been an undergraduate and postgraduate before becoming the college’s first home-grown Fellow.

Professor Lynn Gladden
Awarded for services to Chemical Engineering.

Professor Lynn Gladden is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. She was awarded an O.B.E. for services to chemistry in 2001 and is a Fellow at Trinity College.

Stephen Cleobury
Awarded for services to Music

Stephen Cleobury, has been the Organist and Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge since 1982, and, since 1983, conductor of the orchestra and chorus of the Cambridge University Musical Society.

OBE

Professor Sheila Rodwell*
Awarded for services to Health Care

Professor Rodwell is Director of the MRC Centre for Nutrition in Cancer Epidemiology Prevention and Survival at the University of Cambridge. Professor Rodwell is also Head of the Diet and Cancer Group of the MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge,and a Principal Investigator of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) in Norfolk study. She has been a life Member Clare Hall in 2004 and became an honorary Professor of the University of Cambridge in 2006 for her work on nutritional epidemiology.

*It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Rodwell died only a few days after her OBE was made public.