Professor John Dearlove has been appointed as one of four non-executive board members of the new Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust. John is a former non-executive director of the East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority.

Professor John Nixon (CPES) recently travelled to Bayreuth in Germany to receive the Alexander von Humboldt Research award for his "trail-blazing achievements in phospha-organometallic chemistry".