Biography:

• Malcolm Elliott graduated with First Class Honours in Plant Sciences from The University of Wales in 1963.
• His PhD in plant biochemistry (1966) was followed by a period as a Fulbright Scholar and Research Staff Biologist at Yale University (1967-1969).
• He returned from the USA to the post of Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry at The University of Leicester (1969-1971), then he became Professor and Head of The School of Life Sciences at De Montfort University, (1971-1994), Chairman of The College of Deans at De Montfort University (1989-1993) then Founding Director of The Norman Borlaug Institute for Global Food Security (1994 to 2011) and Editor in Chief of the BioMed Central open access journal Agriculture & Food Security (2011 to date).
• He is the author of several hundred research publications and he has directed the Higher Degree programmes of more than fifty Graduate Students.
• He was honoured by the award of the Charles University Medal (1992), the Gregor Mendel Gold Medal for Biological Sciences Research of Exceptional Merit (1993), the Jan Evangelista Purkyne Medal (1994) and the DSc (Honoris Causa) of the Bulgarian Academy of Agricultural Science (2006).

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