Dr Ling Felce: Research suite opens in memory of Oxford scientist

James and Dr Ling Felce had been married for eight years when she died

A research suite in memory of an Oxford University scientist who was killed by a lorry drug-driver in a cycle crash has opened.

Pharmacology researcher and mother-of-two Dr Ling Felce, 35, died at the Plain roundabout in Oxford on 1 March.

The Ling Felce Bioinformatics suite was unveiled at the CAMS-Oxford Institute on Thursday.

At the opening, Dr Felce's widower James said: "It means an awful lot - it shows her work can continue."

Described by Oxford University as a scientist of "extraordinary talent", she had been researching immune responses to Covid months before her death.

Dr Ling Felce had been researching immune responses to Covid months before her death

A new award in her name has also been set up at the CAMS-Oxford Institute - it offers financial financial support to help train new researchers.

Speaking at the opening, Mr Felce said: "Science meant so much to her and she wanted her work to lead to something.

"It's great that it's here but it's obviously tinged with a lot of sadness that she's not here - she would have loved to have seen this.

"She would have been so excited to know her name was on the door of something that meant a lot to her."

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Dr Felce was born in Malaysia in 1986, and moved to London in 1991 with her parents and sister.

She studied biochemistry in Oxford from 2005 and completed a DPhil at Oxford University's clinical pharmacology department.

Robert Whiting an unqualified, uninsured lorry driver who killed Dr Felce while more than eight times over the drug-drive limit was jailed for eight years on 8 September.

The 40-year-old was driving a 32-tonne lorry, owned by Oxford-based company J&A Driveways - the firm is under investigation by police.