A tribute to former Pirbright director, Professor Brian Mahy
The former Director of the Animal Virus Research Institute at Pirbright, Professor Brian Wilfred John Mahy, BSc, PhD, MA, DSc, has died at the age of 87.
After gaining his PhD in 1963 at the University of Southampton, Brian started his career at the University of London as a research biologist.
From 1965 to 1983, Brian worked in the Department of Pathology at Cambridge University, where he established a strong research programme on influenza and paramyxovirus and became Head of the Division of Virology in 1979.