CBE for Excelsyn's Ian Shott

Ian Shott, president and ceo of Excelsyn, the Newcastle, UK-based pharma and biotech group, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, 2009. The award recognises his services to chemical engineering.

Shott says he is delighted by the award: "It's a great surprise and while I am personally honoured by the recognition, it's also good news for the wider profession and I extend my congratulations to the other chemical engineers who have been recognised.'

Professor Bill Wakeham, vice-chancellor of Southampton University, was awarded a Knighthood for services to chemical engineering and higher education and Professor Lynn Gladden, head of chemical engineering and biotechnology at Cambridge University, gained a CBE for services to chemical engineering.

Professor Robert Burch, former head of chemistry and chemical engineering at Queen&'s College, Belfast was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to Chemistry.

Shott chairs the Government's Innovation Growth Team for Industrial Biotechnology and was recently appointed president of the Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year, 2006.