Brian Bellhouse

Brian J. Bellhouse (1 October 1936 – 12 June 2017) was a British academic, engineer, and entrepreneur, the inventor of PowderJect, a needle-free injection system for delivering medications and vaccines. He was also a professor at the University of Oxford.

Early life Bellhouse received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by a DPhil degree in engineering science in 1964.

Academic career Bellhouse was appointed a lecturer and elected a tutorial fellow at Magdalen College in 1966. PowderJect Pharmaceuticals became a public company in 1997 with a £50 million market valuation. He was born and resided in Winchelsea, East Sussex.