Johnian wins Sir Lionel Whitby Medal

The Sir Lionel Whitby Medal has been awarded to Dr Mark Roberts of St John's College (BA 1991, MA 1995) for his work 'Characterisation of the immune response to vaccine antigens that exacerbate disease in a murine model of cutaneous leishmaniasis'.

His work on the development of a vaccine for the life-threatening disease Leishmania was carried out at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

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