International Achievement Award

The Society annually presents an award to an outstanding individual in recognition of their contributions and achievements in the resolution of public environmental concerns. There are no specific criteria, no age limitations, however, international scientific developments in toxicology are of special interest.

2021 IAA

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY PRESENTS THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO:

Dr. Colin Berry, recipient of 2021 ISRTP International Achievement Award

Dr. Colin Berry
Emeritus Professor of Pathology
Queen Mary
University of London, UK

December 08, 2021

Dr. Berry’s CV

Academic and Professional Career

since 2002 Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
1992 DSc, London, UK
1976 – 2002 Professor of Pathology, London Hospital Medical College, UK (Dean and Warden 1992-1996)
1970 – 1976 Reader in Experimental Pathology, Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
1970 PhD, London, UK
1968 MD, London, UK
1964 – 1970 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Institute of Child Health (Gt. Ormond Street), UK
1961 MB BS, London, UK

Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees

2003 – 2005 President British Academy of Forensic Sciences
1990 – 1994 Member of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain
1989 – 1991 European Society of Pathology
1976 – 1971 Developmental Pathology Society

Honours and Awarded Memberships

2006 Honorary Fellow, The British Toxicology Society
2006 Honorary Curator, The Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
2005 Honorary Fellow, The German Pathological Society
2002 Corresponding Member, The German Pathological Society
1999 Honorary Fellow of the University of Central Lancashire, UK
1995 Honorary Fellow Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physic
1993 Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
1993 Corresponding Member, Rheinish-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften
1993 Knight Bachelor
1989 Member by Distinction of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London, UK

Major Scientific Interests

After initial training in Medicine and Pathology at Charing Cross Hospital, where he won the Governors Clinical Gold Medal, Sir Colin became Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street and was there for six years, becoming a British Heart Foundation

Research Fellow and Senor Lecturer three years later. He was appointed Reader in Pathology at Guy’s Hospital in 1970 and Professor and Head of the Department of Pathology at the Royal London Hospital in 1976.

He has worked in Vascular Pathology and Paediatric Pathology and has written standard texts on both subjects, and has a body of experimental work in vascular pathology, mainly concerned with biomechanics. His interest in toxicology – developed as a result of work in the early days of the culture of vertebrate embryos – has meant that he has served as a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and as a member of a number of other related committees of the European Commission. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides for 10 years; this aspect of his work means that he has advised the British Potato Council and addressed the World Banana Congress.

Sir Colin is a former member of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain and has remained an advisor to that body. He is a former President of the European Society of Pathology and of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences. He was elected to the German Academy of Sciences (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina) in 1993 and made Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in the same year, for services to Medicine and Science. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and has a number of honorary degrees from overseas universities.

Since retirement from his University Chair he has been increasingly involved in work on the public understanding of science and serves on the Steering Committee of the European Science Open Forum and is chairman of its programme committee. He is on the management board of Sense about Science, a body that advises Parliamentarians about the consequences of scientific legislation and regularly presents topics to the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. He is an Honorary Curator of the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

In 2005 he was made an honorary fellow of the German Pathological Society and of the British Society of Toxicology.

Past IAA Recipients

(2020) James E. Klaunig, Ph. D.
(2019) Peter Goering, Ph. D.
(2018) John Bailey, Ph. D.
(2017) Ernest E. McConnell, DVM, MS (Path)
(2015) James S. Bus, Ph.D., DABT, Fellow ATS
(2014) Jay I. Goodman, Ph.D.
(2013) John Fawell, Ph.D.
(2012) Michael L. Gargas, Ph.D.
(2011) Michael G. Bird, Ph.D., FRSC
(2010) Gio Batta Gori, Ph.D.
(2009) Michael Dourson, Ph.D., DABT, ATS
(2008) Mildred S. Christian, Ph.D., Fellow, ATS
(2007) Bernard A. Schwetz, D.V.M., Ph.D<>
(2006) Elizabeth I. Anderson, Ph.D.
(2005) Jerome H. Heckman, Esq.
(2004) Lester M. Crawford, M.D.
(2003) Curtis D. Klaassen, Ph.D.
(2002) Donald Hughes, Ph.D.
(2001) Joseph F. Borzelleca, Ph.D
(1999) Dr. Alan Rulis, Director, Office of Premarket Approval (OPA)
(1998) Dr. Roger O. McClellan, President, CIIT, Research Triangle Park, NC
(1997) Dr. Ian C. Munro, Principal, FRCPath
(1996) Dr. John Higginson, Retired Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University
(1995) Robert C. Barnard, Esq., Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
(1994) Dr. Philip Abelson, Science Magazine, Washington, DC
(1993) Dr. C. Jelleff Carr, Managing Editor of RTP, Columbia, MD
(1991) Dr. John P. Frawley, Health & Environment International, Ltd., Wilmington, DE
(1990) Dr. John Doull, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
(1989) Dr. Frederick Coulston, Coulston Foundation, Alamogordo, NM
(1988) Dr. Robert A. Neal, Retiring President of CIIT, Research Triangle Park, NC
(1987) Dr. Gaston A. Vettorazzi, Geneva, Switzerland and Dr. Frank C. Lu, Miami, FL, WHO