New Year Honours for members of the University of Cambridge

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Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine and Fellow of Darwin College, has been knighted “for services to research and education in Clinical Medicine”.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College has been knighted “for services to Molecular Biology”. Ramakrishnan works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Professor Geoffrey Hill, Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, has been knighted "for services to literature".

Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Director of the University’s Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and Fellow of Downing College has been awarded a CBE “for services to Medical Research”.

Peter Carpenter, founder and honorary executive secretary of Cambridge University’s Kurt Hahn Trust, has been awarded an MBE “for services to Anglo-German relations and to higher education”.

Matthew Moss, private secretary to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).