Professor Chris Fairburn, University of Oxford, has pioneered the use of cognitive behavioural therapies for eating disorders. He is now attempting to adapt a successful treatment for bulimia nervosa for use in other eating disorders.

Professor Bob Snow (above), who works at the KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Programme, will be taking forward his work on mapping malaria risk to predict its likely distribution in ten and 25 years' time. A complementary programme of research will identify the best approaches for national malaria control programmes.

Infectious disease is also the focus of Professor Alan Fairlamb's research at the University of Dundee. He is searching for weak points in the defences of trypanosome parasites and developing drugs targeted against them.

At the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Professor David Tollervey is studying the function of two large multiprotein cellular structures, the exosome and the ribosome.

Image: Professor Bob Snow; C Penn