Premier Veterinary Award

01 October 2004

Professor Paul Flecknell MRCVS of Newcastle upon Tyne has won a premier award of the British Veterinary Association (BVA).

The Dalrymple-Champneys Cup and Medal, awarded "to mark and recognise work of outstanding merit which it is considered will encourage the advancement of veterinary science", were presented to Professor Flecknell during the Awards Ceremony at the BVA's Annual Congress in London today (Friday).

Notes for Editors:

1. Paul Flecknell qualified from Cambridge Veterinary School in 1976 and worked for a year at the University of Bristol as a Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar.  He then joined the Medical Research Council's Clinical Centre at Harrow, where he was responsible for animal health and welfare in the research animal facility.  During this period he completed his PhD in neonatal physiology and developed his major interest in anaesthesia and analgesia.  He holds the Diploma in Laboratory Animal Science of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)and is also a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia and the European College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.  He was appointed to a personal professorship in Laboratory Animal Science in 1997.  Currently Director of the Comparative Biology Centre at the University of Newcastle and the recently appointed vice-chairman of the new National Centre for the reduction, refinement and replacement of animals in research, Professor Flecknell is the author of 89 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 24 review articles in peer-reviewed journals, 43 books and book chapters, and 27 conference proceedings, letters to scientific journals and other scientific publications.  He was awarded the Livesey Medal by the RCVS in 1986 for work on anaesthesia and analgesia, the GV-SOLAS Prize for Laboratory Animal Science in 1991, the Doerenkamp and Zbinden Foundation for Realistic Animal Protection in Scientific Research award in 1991, the Research Defence Society/SmithKline Beecham Laboratory Animal Welfare Prize in 1993, the WARDS Refinement Project Award in 1996, the CAAT Recognition Award in 2002, the Solvay Pharmaceuticals prize in 2003 and the BSAVA/Blue Cross J A Wight award for contributions to companion animal welfare in 2003.
2. The first Dalrymple-Champneys Award was made at the Association's 1934 Annual Congress and was presented by Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys as a mark of the esteem with which he held the veterinary profession.  The object of this award is that a presentation be made to a member of the Association to mark and recognise work of outstanding merit which it is considered will encourage the advancement of veterinary science.
3. For further information please contact the BVA Press Office on 020 7636 6541 or e-mail media@bva.co.uk.

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