Snakebites, malaria & tropical medicine

Health - Jonathan Wood | 29 Nov 10. During his career in tropical medicine Professor David Warrell has milked snakes, studied malaria and rabies and helped thousands of medical students learn about the deadliest diseases. Now Professor Warrell has received the Osler Memorial Medal , which is given once every five years to the Oxford medical graduate who has made the most valuable contribution to the science, art or literature of medicine. He was presented with the bronze medal at a ceremony on Saturday. David Warrell, emeritus professor of tropical medicine and an Honorary Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, has played a key role in global health research at Oxford. This has been not only through the research he carried out, but in setting up a series of clinical research units in South-East Asia and Africa. It is the success of this network of centres that has established Oxford's global reputation for research on infectious diseases that are some of the world's biggest killers.