Former IFR Director honoured
June 2009
Professor David White, former director of the Institute of Food Research, has been awarded a CBE for services to biological science in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Prof White was director at the IFR from 2004 until his retirement in March 2009.
Prior to joining IFR, Professor White was Director of Science and Technology at BBSRC from 1997. Before that he was Head of Biology at the University of York where he established the Department as one of the leading bioscience research centres in the UK.

