Malcolm Molyneux

Malcolm Edward Molyneux (20 November 1943 - 16 November 2021) was a British professor tropical medical researcher who specialised in malaria, especially cerebral malaria. He spent much of his career in Malawi, and was partially responsible for the establishment of the University of Malawi College of Medicine. He and other researchers developed the Blantyre coma scale, a scale to assess the severity of comas induced by malaria in children. For his work in the field, he was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and appointed an OBE in 2006.

During his career he worked at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England, where he was given the title of Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine. He also worked as an editor for Malawi Medical Journal and Tropical Doctor.

Education Malcom Molyneux earnt degrees in natural science and medicine from the University of Cambridge, and graduated in 1967. There he worked research on malaria, especially cerebral malaria in children,

In 1991, Molyneaux was invited to help set up the University of Malawi College of Medicine, In 2006, he was awarded an OBE for his work in Malawi healthcare. and worked there as an editor chief of the from 1980 to 1984, In 1995, he wrote chapters on malaria, fevers, amoebiasis, giardiasis, balantidiasis, anaemia, and flukes for the fourth edition of Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine. For the fifth edition, he wrote the chapter "Malaria".

In 2009, he was awarded the Sir Rickard Christophers Medal. in the Belgian Congo to missionaries Colin and Joyce Molyneux. As a child he attended the Sakeji School, a boarding school in what was then Northern Rhodesia, At the time of his death he had four children and 11 grandchildren.

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1998: Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2006: Order of the British Empire 2009: Sir Rickard Christophers Medal