Brian Cox
Hollywood star Brian Cox - one of Scotland's most successful actors - is involved in a major fundraising campaign to raise the final £4 million needed to build a world-class global diseases research facility in Dundee.
Dundee-born Brian Cox, who has suffered from Type 2 diabetes for the past four years - is famous for theatrical roles on the West End and Broadway. He has also carved out a career in Hollywood, winning a series of high-profile roles such as Hannibal Lecter in the film Manhunter, Daphne's father on Frasier and villain General William Stryker in the blockbuster Xmen 2.
The new centre - scheduled to open in 2005 - will employ 180 scientists and will adjoin the existing Wellcome Trust Biocentre, which already employs some of Europe's top researchers. The centre - as yet unnamed - will seek improved treatments for diabetes and global parasitic diseases such as malaria. Work will begin in 2003.
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