Introduction
Bryan Thomas Grenfell OBE, FRS (born 1954) is a British population biologist, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, at Princeton University.
Education
Grenfell earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honours from Imperial College London, and PhD in biology from the University of York in 1980.
Career and research
After his graduation Grenfell taught at the University of Cambridge, he was Alumni Professor of Biology, at Pennsylvania State University, and he is an affiliate of the Center for Health and Wellbeing.
Together with a number of other persons, in 2016 he proposed a World Serum Bank as a means of helping combat epidemics.
Awards and honours
In 1991 Grenfell was awarded a T.H. Huxley Medal from Imperial College London, and in 1995 the 1995 Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004.
Other activities
- Wellcome Trust, Member of the Board of Governors (since 2014)