David Molyneux

David Hurst Molyneux CMG is a British parasitologist who served as the director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1991–2000), where, as of 2018, he is an emeritus professor.

Biography Molyneux was born in Northwich in Cheshire in 1943, and educated at Denstone College, Staffordshire (1956–62). He attended Emmanuel College of the University of Cambridge, gaining a degree in zoology (1965) and a PhD in parasitology (1969). He received a DSc from the University of Salford (1992). He performed various part-time roles at LSTM until September 2018, when he retired from the institute.

He has been the editor-in-chief of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's journal, International Health, since 2018. In 2010, he edited a series of articles on neglected tropical diseases for The Lancet. and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH; 2007–09).

His awards include the Chalmers Medal (1987), the Donald Mackay Medal (2007) He is an elected fellow of the Institute of Biology (1984), an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of Liverpool John Moores University (2010), and has received honorary degrees from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (2010) In the New Year Honours of 2020, he was awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for "services to Controlling Neglected Tropical Diseases".

Selected publications