Evelyn Glennie has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993 and was promoted to Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. She was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 New Year Honours. She owns over 2000 percussion instruments from all over the world and is continually adding to her collection. Glennie is an Ambassador of the Royal National Children's Foundation (formerly the Joint Educational Trust) which
Martin Glennie Martin Glennie Martin J. Glennie is professor of immunochemistry (antibodies) at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Glennis earned his BSc and PhD at the University of Southampton, and is the current Head of the Cancer Sciences Unit there. Glennie is on the editorial board of the scientific journal mAbs (monoclonal antibodies) published by the Taylor & Francis Group. The clinical trial of an anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody chiLOB7/4 developed in Glennie's laboratory was reported by "The Daily Telegraph" in August 2013. Glennie stressed that “Ipilimumab works by taking the brakes off part of the immune system called T cells, while