Dr Jock Murray, Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been appointed President of the Robert Pope Foundation. Jock was a Commonwealth Scholar (1967-1968) and Commonwealth Fellow (1985), and formerly Dean of Medicine at...

Dr Jayantha P Jayasuriya (Commonwealth Scholar, University of Liverpool, 1975-1978) has been elected President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Sri Lanka for the year 2010-11.

Carolyn Idusso (Commonwealth Professional Fellow in Public Health) is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Scholarship to pursue a Masters in Health Care Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham in 2009-2010.

Hemant Sahni, Commonwealth Scholar from India, has been awarded an Overseas Research Scholarship by University College London and a PhD Studentship by the Child Health Research Appeal Trust to undertake research on T cell development and immune responses at the UCL...

Professor Elizabeth Blackburn (Commonwealth Scholar, University of Cambridge, 1973-1974) has been presented with her Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. On 7 December, Elizabeth delivered her Nobel Lecture at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was...