Dr Leonard (Len) Goodwin CMG FRS in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme: Interview 1

Dr Leonard Goodwin CMG FRS first discusses early interests in science and a career in pharmacy, studies at University College and the School of Pharmacy, London. Details of a demonstratorship at the School of Pharmacy follow, then a move to the Wellcome Research Laboratories in 1939 and research as a protozoologist, a career that led to involvement in numerous studies of tropical diseases, including malaria, trypanosomiasis and helminth infections, particularly investigations of possible chemotherapeutic strategies, and finally directorship of the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, 1958-63. Of particular interest in this section are the field trials of drugs he conducted in Africa and the water colour impressions by which he recorded his travels. On appointment as Director of the Nuffield Laboratories for Comparative Medicine at the Zoological Society of London in 1964 there followed a range of comparative studies in animals. Final discussion focuses on the persisting challenges of tropical medicine and barriers to progress