NobellaureateSir Martin Evans, ProfessorofMammalianGenetics at the Universityhas been recognised as a 'GreatBriton' in the 2007 Morgan Stanley 'Great BritonsAwards'.
The Quintiles story traces to a 1975 phone call between Gillings, then a 30-year-old Briton working as a statistics professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and executives at Hoechst, which was then the largest drug company in the world.