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Brian Bellhouse

British academic, engineer, and entrepreneur

Brian J. Bellhouse (1 October 1936 – 12 June 2017) was a British academic, engineer, and entrepreneur, the inventor of PowderJect, a needle-free injection system for delivering medications and vaccines. He was also a professor at the University of Oxford.2

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Born 1937, died Jun 12, 2017.1

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedMagdalen College3

Early life

Bellhouse received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Magdalen College, Oxford, followed by a DPhil degree in engineering science in 1964.

Academic career

Bellhouse was appointed a lecturer and elected a tutorial fellow at Magdalen College in 1966. In 1998, he became a professor of engineering science, and established and supervised the Department of Engineering Science's Medical Engineering Unit at Oxford University. He retired in 2004 and was appointed an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College.

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Career

Occupation: engineer.6

  • Date not recordedWorked at Magdalen College4
  • Date not recordedFounded PowderJect5

Personal life

  • Born1937, Winchelsea7
  • DiedJun 12, 2017, Guestling8
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom9

Bellhouse was the father-in-law of the Labour peer and former Minister of Science, Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson. He was born and resided in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

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Philanthropy

With the profits he gained from the sale of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, Bellhouse became a major donor to Oxford University, including a "substantial gift" towards the building of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and the endowment of the Oxford-Bellhouse Graduate Scholarship in Biomedical Engineering at Magdalen College.

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