THE new headquarters of the Peninsula Medical School, which was opened this week in Plymouth, has been named after Tavistock man Professor John Bull. A key player in the development of the medical school, John Bull is the current chairman of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Plymouth. The John Bull Building on the Tamar Science Park will also be the headquarters of the University of Plymouth?s Faculty of Health and Social Work. The Peninsula Medical School, which has attracted more than 4,000 undergraduate applications during the last three years, is at the heart of the regional development of Devon and Cornwall ? a £75-million investment that has developed a medical scientific infrastructure with new buildings and experts from across the globe to centres in Exeter, Truro and Plymouth. Professor Mary Watkins, Dean of the University of Plymouth?s Faculty of Health and Social Work said at the opening of the headquarters: ?Today is an historic recognition of the work of Professor John Bull. ?During the last decade his drive and ambition to develop higher quality health care education in the peninsula has been instrumental in the achievement we are here to celebrate today.?