Professor P. G. (Gerry) McKenna

Awards / Honours
1999 Coleraine Business Person of the Year
2000 President Emeritus, Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Science (HUCBMS)
2000 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
2001 Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA)
2001 Freedom of the Borough of Coleraine
2001 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, National University of Ireland
2002 Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Londonderry
2002 Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, The Queen’s University of Belfast
2002 Honouree, Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies, Cambridge, Mass.
2003 Keys to the City of Portland, Maine
2003 Honouree, The Flax Trust, New York
2006 Professor Emeritus, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of  Ulster
2011 Honorary Executive Secretary (and President Emeritus), Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Science (HUCBMS)
2017 Vice President, Royal Irish Academy
2020 Senior Vice President, Royal Irish Academy
2021 Vice Lord Lieutenant for County Londonderry
 2024            Eponymous Gerry McKenna Award for Excellence in Health Science and Technology,
                       Western Health and Social Services Trust