Keith Gull, CBE, FRS, FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Biology at the William Dunn School of Pathology, took up office as Principal of St Edmund Hall on 1 October 2009. Professor Gull trained as a microbiologist at the University of London and moved on completion of his PhD to a lectureship at the University of Kent. He held a personal chair at Kent before moving to the University of Manchester where, as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean, he was involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences. Professor Gull is an eminent microbiologist whose work on Trypanosomes has been ground-breaking and has led to new approaches in understanding sleeping sickness. He has served on numerous committees of research councils and charities, including as a Trustee of Cancer Research UK. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE for services to microbiology.
New College
Professor Sir Curtis Price, formerly Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, took up office as Warden of New College in September 2009, following the retirement of Professor Alan Ryan. Professor Price studied as an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University and then went on to take a PhD at Harvard University. He moved to the UK in 1981 to take up a post at King’s College London, where he became King Edward VII Professor of Music in 1988. He took up the post at the Royal Academy of Music in 1995. He has an international reputation as a historian of music and drama, and has published extensively on the music of Henry Purcell and on historical performance practice. He was awarded the Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society in 1976 and the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal in 1984. Professor Price was President of the Royal Musical Association from 1999 to 2002 and was knighted in 2007.
Keith Gull, CBE, FRS, FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Biology at the William Dunn School of Pathology, took up office as Principal of St Edmund Hall on 1 October 2009. Professor Gull trained as a microbiologist at the University of London and moved on completion of his PhD to a lectureship at the University of Kent. He held a personal chair at Kent before moving to the University of Manchester where, as Head of Biochemistry and Research Dean, he was involved with the development of the School of Biological Sciences. Professor Gull is an eminent microbiologist whose work on Trypanosomes has been ground-breaking and has led to new approaches in understanding sleeping sickness. He has served on numerous committees of research councils and charities, including as a Trustee of Cancer Research UK. In 2004 he was awarded a CBE for services to microbiology. 
Professor Sir Curtis Price, formerly Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, took up office as Warden of New College in September 2009, following the retirement of Professor Alan Ryan. Professor Price studied as an undergraduate at Southern Illinois University and then went on to take a PhD at Harvard University. He moved to the UK in 1981 to take up a post at King’s College London, where he became King Edward VII Professor of Music in 1988. He took up the post at the Royal Academy of Music in 1995. He has an international reputation as a historian of music and drama, and has published extensively on the music of Henry Purcell and on historical performance practice. He was awarded the Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society in 1976 and the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal in 1984. Professor Price was President of the Royal Musical Association from 1999 to 2002 and was knighted in 2007.