With stupendous efforts from the school, especially from the Deputy Head, Craig Donaldson we are pleased to announce further accreditation successes for our degree programmes. Both our Healthcare Science programmes have been accredited by the Institute of Biomedical Science and the Health and Care Professions Council. Our Healthcare Science (Physiological Sciences) was highly commended by the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists on their accreditation visit. Finally we have launched an extensive portfolio of Masters in Biomedical Science degrees that will start in September 2014. These programmes are shortly to be reviewed by the IBMS. See
Many in my field of Transfusion Medicine
were saddened to learn of the death of Prof George Garratty, Scientific Director of the
American Red Cross Transfusion Service, Los Angeles on 17th March 2014.
I’d known George for almost 25 years, and he had always been a source of
inspiration. He gave his time to all that asked for it, this altruism was a total reflection on the man he was, a genuinely nice person, and consequently hugely respected by all who knew of him. We routinely met at the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
and other conferences for a beer(s) or dinner to discuss various Transfusion
politics and scientific developments described in recent papers. George was one of the “English mafia” of Transfusion scientists that emigrated
to the USA in the 1960s. This group routinely socialised and organised the
infamous “English nights” at the annual AABB congress. I met him at one of
these auspicious events in 1990. George was an expert on autoimmune haemolytic
anaemias amongst many other things, and a hyperactive section editor for the
Journal Transfusion for which I referee at least one paper a month. He
was also one of my external referees for my Professorial and Reader
applications over a decade ago. I’m to travel to the USA twice later this year
on Transfusion medicine related business, it won’t be the same without him
being there. RIP George.
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