Professor Lee Innes, Director of Communications and Principal Scientist at Moredun, awarded MBE
Moredun is very proud to announce that Professor Lee Innes, Director of Communications and Principal Scientist at Moredun, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to scientific research and communication.
Professor Julie Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director of the Moredun Research Institute and Chief Executive of the Moredun Foundation, said, “On behalf of all our colleagues at Moredun may we offer our warmest congratulations to Professor Innes on receiving this honour in recognition of her outstanding contribution to scientific research and communication. The award of the MBE is richly deserved”.
Professor Innes has made a major contribution throughout her career to promoting and communicating livestock science both within the UK and internationally. Both through her highly successful academic work in immunology and parasitology and by developing several high profile engagement and communication activities to improve science policy interactions and promote education and understanding of livestock health and welfare.
Lee has an honours degree in Immunology from the University of Glasgow and a PhD in Tropical Animal Health from the University of Edinburgh. She has conducted research in the area of infectious diseases of livestock at several different research institutes in UK and Africa and currently leads a group at Moredun looking at developing solutions to control diseases caused by protozoan parasites. She has Honorary Professorships from Heriot Watt University, University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow and is also CEO of the Creative Science Company a spin out from Moredun established in 2008.
Following a sabbatical year spent in Hong Kong in 2002-03 where she studied journalism and photography, she became more interested in science communication, knowledge exchange and education. In 2008 Professor Innes became Director of Communications at Moredun and has since divided her time between her scientific research and science communication.
Professor Innes commented, “This is an extraordinary honour, which I am delighted to accept in recognition of our brilliant research and communications teams here at Moredun and I have been fortunate to have worked with some very talented people throughout my career”.