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 Adjunct Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida; Adjunct Professor of Pathology & Forensic Medicine Education, University of Canberra. He holds shares in Avipero Ltd. and is also a Trustee of the Melville Trust for Cure & Care of Cancer, a Member of the Committee on Toxicity of the Food Standards Agency, of the Board of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and of the Advisory Board of the Scottish Life Sciences Association.
- 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. She has no other financial or financial-related interests.
- 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, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. Professor Cushley is Chairman of the Board of Directors, & Trustee/Non-Executive Director of the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.
- Brian Duffin, Director, Scottish Equitable Policyholders Trust; Actuarial Adviser, Mineworkers Pension Scheme & British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme; Chairman, the GEC 1972 Plan (Pension Scheme) and Director, Debt Management Office; Chairman, Cervello Consultants Ltd. He also serves as a Director of the Church of Scotland Investors Trust, is Financial Convenor, Broughton St Mary's Parish Church, as a Member of the Discipline Board of Actuarial Profession, Investigation & Professional Conduct Enforcement Committee of the Institute of Accountants in Scotland and as a member of the Board of Management of Stevenson College, Edinburgh.
- Scott Johnstone, Director & CEO, Scottish Life Sciences Association (SLA). He is also a Director of Narnix and holds shares in both Narnix and Antoxis Ltd. He has non-financial interests in BioSKAPE, SU2P and is a Member of both the Life Sciences Advisory Board of Napier University and the Advisory Board of Quantics Ltd.
- Bruce M. Mann, Director, W.M. Mann & Co (Investments) Ltd; Chairman, W.M. Mann Group and a Director of Overton Properties Ltd, City & County Investments (Scotland) Ltd, Industrial & Commercial Advances (1972) Ltd; and Industrial & Commercial Leasing Ltd. In addition, he serves as a Trustee of the W.M. Mann Foundation.
- C. John Naylor, latterly (2006-11) Chairman of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) receives pensions from his former involvements with the Carnegie UK Trust and the YMCA. He is a member of the Audit & Risk Management Committee of the National Trust for Scotland; a Trustee of the Carnegie UK Trust Retirement Benefits Scheme (now closed) and, having been a Council Member (2005-10) of the UK Scout Association and Chair (2005-10) of its Development Grants Board, he remains an Assessor on that Board as well as having several other local scout involvements; is Hon Treasurer & Trustee of the Tomorrow Project; a Trustee of the Scottish Community Foundation; Chair of Strange Town; a Member of the Alumni Council of Clare College, Cambridge and serves as an Elder of Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh.
- Fiona M.M. Nicolson (Vice-Chairman), Partner, Bristows, Solicitors, London. She also serves as Honorary Vice-President, St Andrew's Clinics for Children; Co-Chair, Membership Committee, Licensing Executives Society International; Member of Council and past President, Licensing Executives Society (Britain & Ireland); Member of the Regenerative Medicine Industry Group of the BIA and is Convener of the IP Accreditation Committee of the Law Society of Scotland.
