Herbert Michael Gilles

Herbert Michael Gilles CMG FRCP (10 September 1921 – 20 October 2015) was a Maltese-British physician and professor of tropical medicine, recognized as a leading expert in his field.

[1][2] Gilles was born to Maltese parents (the family name was originally Galea)[3] living in Port Said, Egypt, and went to a French school there until the age of 11.

In 1948 he moved to England,[3] where he, by means of his Rhodes Scholarship, received further education at the University of Oxford, qualifying MSc in 1951.

Despite the rudimentary laboratory, Gilles and his supervisor Ian McGregor were able to do important research on antibodies to malaria.

[3]At the University of Ibadan he met Adetokunbo Lucas, who worked with Gilles to create suitable teaching materials in tropical medicine.