Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2003) 52, 537
© 2003 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Professor Emlyn Glyn Vaughan Evans
4th October 1941–4th August 2003
Emlyn Glyn Vaughan Evans 1, Professor of Medical Mycology at the University of Cardiff, died on August 4th after several weeks of serious illness. He was an Editor and a member of the Editorial Board of JAC, and served as a member of the BSAC Antifungal Chemotherapy Working Group.
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Glyn Evans was a major international figure in the field of medical mycology. A graduate from Cardiff, his research into fungal diseases began with his PhD project at the University of Glasgow. Glyn returned to Cardiff in 2001, but it is for his period of 31 years at Leeds University that he is best known and remembered. Starting as a lecturer responsible both for teaching and for routine diagnostic mycology, he rapidly built Leeds into one of the best known reference centres for medical mycology in the UK. In 1991 the Leeds mycology laboratory became one of the country’s two PHLS official reference laboratories in the field, with Glyn as its Head.
Glyn Evans devoted long service to the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, serving variously as its Chief Editor (for 7 years), its General Secretary and its President. He was President of the British Society for Medical Mycology (BSMM) from 1994–1998 and a Council member of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology over the same period. He initiated the biennial BSMM course in diagnostic mycology at Leeds, which has become the landmark for training in mycology for hospital diagnostic laboratories, and was the author or co-author of six textbooks on mycology and microbiology. Glyn devoted much energy to the promotion of international collaborations in medical mycology, particularly in the Far East, and was rewarded with an honorary Chair from the University of Beijing, China, in 1999.
Glyn was a warm, generous person with a tremendous sense of fun, who commanded affection and respect from all who knew him. He leaves a widow and two sons, to whom we extend our sincerest condolences.
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