Huge congratulations to Dr Dominic Kay who passed his PhD viva yesterday. Dominic was in 'my' first cohort of BMS@NUMed students in 2015 and he is now the first ever NUMed PhD graduate - what a fantastic journey and at least he does not wear flip flops in the lab any more.
Big thanks to Hannah Owens, Sam Heppel and Jordan Heeley from our sustainability team here at Newcastle who joined me in a meeting with colleagues from Iskandar Investment Berhad (Mr Haris Hardi Zakaria, Mr Ir Kuna Segaran Vrejenan, Ms Azizah Khalid Merican and Mr Krishnamoorthy)
Lovely to see Jane Falconer today at the INE symposium. I have not seen her for at least 10 years and it was nice to catch up. She was an undergraduate with us, let’s say a few years ago, and is now at Sunderland where she is Associate Head of the School of Medicine
Today I am going to the Immunology North East annual symposium to immerse myself in all things Immunology - well I am still an immunologist(ish). Here we all are about 30 years ago when it was the North East Immunology Club - think it is only me and Simi left at Newcastle now.
Another Monday off and first job of the day was to drive George to Gateshead (the Old Durham Road) to get some speakers (his birthday present) at his favourite computer shop.