deliver a pair of lectures.

Dr. Malcolm Brock, a former Bermuda College student and Rhodes scholar who is now a surgical resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, was flown in by Corange Ltd. to help celebrate the health care company's 25th year in Bermuda.

Corange, the $3.2-billion parent company of Boehringer Mannheim and DePuy, a privately held firm that markets health care products in more than 150 countries, announced yesterday it was donating $1 million to aid in the study of life sciences at the College.

"In celebrating our silver anniversary, it is very appropriate to bring in someone who has achieved excellence in the life sciences,'' Corange general manager Mr. Adolf Luttke said of Dr. Brock.

"But Dr. Brock is not only a good role model for the College or the life sciences. He is also a role model for his generation.'' At 30, the son of National Drug Commission chairman Mr. Mansfield Brock has amassed an impressive list of credentials.

Before entering Bermuda College in 1981, Dr. Brock spent a year in Japan, where he earned a black belt in Judo and was an interpreter.

Dr. Brock, who is fluent in Japanese, also wrote a book called "Biotechnology in Japan'' in 1989.

"I was intrigued by the question of what the Japanese were going to conquer next,'' Dr. Brock told The Royal Gazette yesterday. "What I found was that they think the next big frontier for mankind is the life sciences.'' After completing the first year of a science degree at Bermuda College, Dr.

Brock earned a BA in molecular biology from Princeton University and a Master of Letters in Japanese studies at Oxford.

He graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1991 and is currently conducting research at the university's hospital into how to prevent neurological complications during heart surgery.

"My tenure in Baltimore ends in the year 2000,'' Dr. Brock said.

"Thirteen years is the shortest time you must put in to cut open a human heart.'' While Dr. Brock's Bermuda lectures will focus primarily on the life sciences, he said they are talks that everyone can understand and appreciate.

The first, a free public lecture at the College's Stonington Campus, will address how the life sciences affect man's everyday life. It starts at 7.30 p.m. tonight and is geared toward a secondary school-aged audience, Dr. Brock said.

His second talk, at a VIP dinner in which Corange will formally make its donation to the College, deals with the potential that animal research has for saving lives and curing disease in the future.

"I have a lot of problems with manipulating genes, but every human being may someday have a porcine twin to draw on for transplants. Right now they're profusing (pig) hearts with human blood and finding they work even better.'' Dr. Brock, who credits his time at Bermuda College with giving him the foundation on which he based much of his later work, rejected the idea that Bermuda lacked the intellectual resources to conduct world-class research.

"I had a great time at Bermuda College,'' he said. "It was very challenging.

The curriculum was probably as tough as anywhere I went.'' He added: "People think: `I'm just from Bermuda. What can I do?' That's so erroneous. The opportunities are tremendously wide.'' GOING WHOLE HOG -- Corange general manager Mr. Adolf Luttke (left) smiles over medical researcher Dr. Malcolm Brock's "designer pig'' yesterday.