Professor Martin Shirley, Director of the Institute for Animal Health since July 2006, has been awarded a CBE for Services to Science in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His research on the protozoan parasite Eimeria, a major cause of poor health and performance in chickens, led him to develop the first attenuated live vaccine to control it. This is now used in over a billion chickens annually to reduce gut disease.
Recently Professor Shirley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.