Drs Ellen Brooks Pollock OBE, Leon Danon and Robert Challen, have been awarded the prestigious Weldon Memorial Prize along with other members of the SPI-M-O group, which reports to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
Additionally, Drs Leon Danon, Robert Challen, Amy Thomas and Emily Nixon were awarded the SPI-M-O (Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling group) Award for Modelling and Data Support (SAMDS) which recognises those who have made an exceptional contribution to the work of the group outside of their usual work activity.
The Weldon Memorial Prize is awarded annually by the University of Oxford for ‘noteworthy contributions in the development of mathematical or statistical methods applied to problems in biology’. This is the first time in its history that the prize, which has been awarded since 1911, has been given to a group rather than an individual.