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 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 article: "MMR: What they didn't tell you", a one-hour Dispatches documentary for Channel 4, first broadcast November 18, 2004, investigating research on the MMR vaccine was the core subject of a libel case. Andrew Wakefield, who initiated the case against Deer, eventually dropped the suit, becoming liable for the costs incurred by Deer and the other defendants. Deer's documentary "The drug trial that went wrong", nominated for a Royal Television Society journalism award, investigated the experimental monoclonal antibody TGN1412. Deer was the 2009 Susan B Meister lecturer in child health policy at the University of Michigan.