We have prepared this symposium also to honour the occasion of the 80th birthday of the MASSter of steroid mass spectrometry, Professor Cedric H.L. Shackleton and we are delighted that we will have more than 100 guests from all over the world, many of whom have worked very closely with Cedric for many years, including several of his former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows and many key collaborators.
Cedric Shackleton’s career spans more than five decades and includes the development of several ground-breaking approaches and techniques that have advanced the field in a major way. His work has been recognised on multiple occasions including the award of the 2010 Schroepfer medal for Steroid and Sterol Research by the American Oil Chemists Association.
Birmingham marks important corner stones in Cedric’s life:
- Here in Birmingham, Cedric was born 80 years ago, evacuated as a Newborn from the Women’s Hospital destroyed by a German air raid, spending his first few days on earth in the Cadbury’s Chocolate Factory with many other Birmingham mothers and babies.
- Here in Birmingham, Cedric has been a great colleague and honorary professor for two decades, supporting generations of students and fellows in the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research (and before the 2015 foundation of the IMSR, in the old Division of Medical Sciences), patiently teaching them the art of steroid analysis.
- Here in Birmingham, Cedric has had a crucial role in helping us set up the University of Birmingham’s Steroid Metabolome Analysis Core (SMAC), driving us to ever new and higher standards of steroid analysis.
- Here in Birmingham, Cedric was made an Honorary Graduate of the University of Birmingham in 2016, delivering his commencement speech in the Great Hall, packed with graduates and their families.
- And here in Birmingham we will now enjoy a great symposium in his honour, fittingly again in the impressive environment of the Great Hall.
Cedric Shackleton in several of his natural habitats
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