Benefactors

The Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust

The Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust was established in memory of Elizabeth Creak, the first female High Sheriff of Warwickshire, who ran one of the county’s largest and most successful dairy farms for a number of years.

Elizabeth created the Trust to provide ‘Clyde Higgs Scholarships’ in agriculture; support and encourage new blood in farming and finance projects to help farmers survive and ultimately thrive in their challenging modern environment.

Dr David Stirling - Sir Howard Dalton Centre

Launched in October 2022, the Sir Howard Dalton Centre for (Translational) Mechanistic Enzymology is an interdisciplinary network of academics dedicated to finding new drugs to combat resistant microbes. Researchers at the Centre focus on understanding how microbes develop resistance and how to overcome it. The Centre, was made possible by a generous donation from Dr David Stirling, who was Sir Howard Dalton’s first PhD student, at Warwick.

Dr David Stirling’s generosity is enabling Warwick to develop a global network of research leaders tackling antimicrobial resistance, a critical issue to be overcome for global health resilience.
Dr Stirling's gift is a significant contribution to the fight against antimicrobial resistance and continues to inspire and catalyse further support for the Centre. The University of Warwick is grateful for his generosity, which will help address this global health challenge.

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation - Sir Howard Dalton Centre

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation's generous donation of £1.5 million will drive joint research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by scientists in the UK and Japan. This is crucial because AMR is a growing threat that could render antibiotics ineffective against common infections.

The project is led by the Sir Howard Dalton Centre and involves researches from the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM) in Japan. They aim to discover new antibiotics and develop policies to encourage their development, especially for diseases affecting low-income countries. This collaboration between UK and Japanese researchers with expertise in antibiotic discovery is expected to be a significant step forward in tackling the global challenge of AMR.

Jim Brewster

Jim Brewster worked at our Wellesbourne campus from 1974-1990. He was an onion physiologist whose passion for knowledge extended into the genetics and breeding of onion crops. His publications were influential and earned Jim a significant international reputation within the Allium research community.

Jim Brewster generously left a bequest of £769,000 to the School of Life Sciences to support Crop Science.

Ted Pridgeon

Warwickshire resident Ted Pridgeon donated £1.2m to the University of Warwick to fund a research professorship in neuroscience. This position is held by Professor Nick Dale.

Mr Pridgeon made his donation in person when he and his wife Myrtle visited the University to tour the University's Biological Sciences Department and its Medical Research Institute (now the School of Life Sciences).