Professor Sir Rory Collins is being honoured for his transformative national and international contributions to both cardiovascular disease and UK Biobank, including his discoveries showing that statins safely reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes in a wide range of individuals, which have saved millions of lives worldwide.
As the latest recipient of the MRC Millennium Medal, Professor Sir Rory Collins joins an elite group of men and women, including Sir Peter Mansfield, Professor Janet Darbyshire and Professor Sir Philip Cohen, for their exceptional contributions to medical research. Sir Rory will deliver a lecture and will be presented with the Medal commissioned from the Royal Mint at an awards ceremony in Spring 2021.
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