About Us - Members' Interests
The key principles under which the Members operate, especially those in relation to integrity, honesty and openness, include the expectation that they all declare certain interests in proceedings of Medical Research Scotland, thereby ensuring transparency of interests which might, or be thought to, influence their actions. When such declarations are made, the Members absent themselves from that part of any meeting or other correspondence on matters relating to that interest.
- Professor David J. Harrison (Chairman), Professor of Pathology, University of Edinburgh; Director, Edinburgh Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit; Lead, Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre; Clinical Director, Laboratory Medicine & Honorary Consultant, Lothian University Hospital Division. Professor Harrison is also a Member of the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on Cancer, Adjunct Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida; Adjunct Professor of Pathology & Forensic Medicine Education, University of Canberra. He holds shares in The Forensic Institute; Avipero Ltd. and is also a Trustee of the Melville Trust for Cure & Care of Cancer, is Chair of The Nazareth Trust (a healthcare charity) and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Nazareth Village Project
- Professor Catherine M. Abbott, Professor of Mammalian Molecular Genetics, School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine and the Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine
- Professor Andrew H. Baker, Professor of Molecular Medicine, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow
- Dr Marie Boyd, Reader in Translational Biology, Targeted Radiation Therapeutics Group, University of Strathclyde and also Scientific Adviser to MIP Pharmaceuticals Inc., Boston, Mass. In addition, she serves as a Committee Member of the Association for Radiation Research; and as a Trustee of the L.J. Gray Memorial Trust.
- Professor William Cushley, Professor of Molecular Immunology, Division of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. Professor Cushley is a Member of the MRC College of Experts (Infection & Immunity Theme) and also Chairman of the Board of Directors, & Trustee/Non-Executive Director of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.
- Brian Duffin, Director, Scottish Equitable Policyholders Trust; Director, HBOS FS; Actuarial Adviser, Mineworkers Pension Scheme & British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme; Chairman, Alstom UK Pension Scheme and Director, Debt Management Office. He also serves as a Director of the Church of Scotland Investors Trust, is Financial Convenor, Broughton St Mary's Parish Church and as a Member of the Discipline Board of Actuarial Profession, Investigation & Professional Conduct Enforcement Committee of the Institute of Accountants in Scotland.
- Scott Johnstone, Director of the BioIndustry Association (BIA) Scotland and CEO, Antoxis Ltd
- Bruce M. Mann, Director, W.M. Mann & Co (Investments) Ltd; Chairman, W.M. Mann Group and a Director of both Overton Properties Ltd, City & County Investments (Scotland) Ltd and Industrial & Commercial Advances (1972) Ltd. In addition, he serves as a Trustee of the W.M. Mann Foundation.
- Professor Allan M. Mowat, Professor of Mucosal Immunology & Honorary Consultant Clinical Immunologist, Division of Immunology, Infection & Inflammation, University of Glasgow. Professor Mowat is also a Member of the MRC Panel on Translational Vaccine Research and of the MRC College of Experts (Infection & Immunity). He has no other financial or non-financial related interests.
- C. John Naylor has been Chairman of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) since April 2006 and also receives pensions from his former involvements with the Carnegie UK Trust and the YMCA. A Trustee of the Carnegie UK Trust Retirement Benefits Scheme (now closed), he also serves as a Member of the Council of the UK Scout Association (2005-10); as Chair of the Development Grants Board; is Hon Treasurer & Trustee of the Tomorrow Project; Vice-Chair of Strange Town and as an Elder of Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh.
- Fiona M.M. Nicolson, Partner, Bristows, Solicitors, London. She also serves as Honorary Vice-President, St Andrew's Clinics for Children; a Council Member and Past-President, Licensing Executives Society (Britain & Ireland); Chair, IP Maintenance Committee, Licensing Executives Society (International) and is Chair of the IP Accreditation Panel of the Law Society of Scotland.
- Professor Stephen J. Wigmore, Professor of Transplantation Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Lothian Universities NHS Trust and Clinical Lead for Transplantation Services Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He serves as Departmental Specialty Advisor on Organ Donation & Transplantation in Scotland to the Chief Medical Officer; is Associate Editor of the World Journal of Surgery; Scotland Representative National Anaesthetics Specialty Subgroup NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre; RI Stirling Bequest Committee, Board Member Scottish Hepatopancreatobiliary National Managed Clinical Network, Director Edinburgh MSc in Surgical Sciences (ESSQ) Year 3, Chairman Queen’s Medical Research Institute Arts Committee.
