Brian Deer
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Brian Deer is an award-winning British investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine and social issues for the Sunday Times of London. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Warwick, he became editor and press officer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and was a member of the Leveller magazine collective. He joined The Times, then The Sunday Times, where his awards have included a British Press Award for his investigations. In the 1980s, he was the UK's first social affairs correspondent, and between 1990 and 1992 reported from the United States.
His television work includes: MMR: What they didn't tell you [1], a one-hour Dispatches documentary for Channel 4, first broadcast in November 2004, investigating research on the MMR vaccine; and The drug trial that went wrong [2], first broadcast by Channel 4 in September 2006, and nominated for a Royal Television Society journalism award, investigating the experimental monoclonal antibody TGN1412.
