Research

University of Cambridge Members on Committees of Funding Agencies – November 2011

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Board

• Dame Patricia Hodgson (Principal, Newnham College)

Research and Innovation Strategic Advisory Committee

• Professor James Stirling (Dept of Physics)

Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Council

• Professor Sarah Worthington (Faculty of Law)

Advisory Board

• Professor John Rink (Faculty of Music)
• Professor Richard Evans (Faculty of History)

Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

Council

• Professor Sir Tom Blundell – Chair (Dept of Biochemistry)
• Professor Sir David Baulcombe (Dept of Plant Sciences)

Strategy Advisory Board

• Professor Sir D Baulcombe (Dept of Plant Sciences)

Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy Strategy Advisory Panel

• Professor Alison Smith (Dept of Plant Sciences)

Healthy Organism Strategy Panel

• Professor Peter Mcnaughton (Dept of Pharmacology)

Integrative and Systems Biology Panel

• Professor Steve Oliver (Dept of Biochemistry)

Research Committee A: Animal disease, health & welfare

• Professor Nicola Clayton (Dept of Experimental Psychology)

Research Committee B: Plants, microbes, food & sustainability

• Dr Julian Hibberd (Dept of Plant Sciences)

Research Committee C: Genes, devt & STEM approaches to Biology

• Professor Athene Donald – Chair (Dept of Physics)

Research Committee D: Molecules, cells & industrial biotechnology

• Professor Steve Jackson (Dept of Biochemistry)

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Council

• Professor Lynn Gladden (Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research)
• Professor Timothy Pedley (DAMTP)

Strategic Advisory Network

• Professor Alan Hughes (Judge Business School)
• Professor Ian White (Dept of Engineering)

ICT Strategic Advisory Team (SAT)

• Professor Andrew Pitts (Computer Laboratory)

Physical Sciences SAT

• Dr Micahel Kohl (Cavendish Laboratory)

Research Infrastructure and International SAT

• Professor Stewart Cant (Dept of Engineering)

Nanoscience through Engineering to Application SAT

• Professor Jeremy Baumberg (Dept of Physics)

Healthcare SAT

• Dr Richard Prager (Dept of Engineering)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

International Network

• Professor Michael Lamb – Chair (Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology)
• Professor Jaideep Prabhu (Judge Business School)

Audit Committee

• Professor Michael Lamb (Dept of Social & Developmental Psychology)

Influencing Behaviour and Informing Interventions Task Force

• Professor Susan Owens (Dept of Geography)

Medical Research Council (MRC)

Populations and Systems Medicine Board – from April 2012

• Professor David Lomas – Chair (Dept of Medicine)

Translational Research Group

• Professor Steve O’Rahily (Clinical Biochemistry/ Institute of Metabolic Science)

Infection and Immunity Board

• Professor Sharon Peacock (Dept of Medicine)

Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board

• Professor Paul Luzio – Chair (Clinical Biochemistry / CIMR)
• Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith (Dept of Physiology Development & Neuroscience)

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

National Capability Advisory Group

• Professor Julian Dowdeswell (Scott Polar Research Institute, Dept of Geography)

Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Council

• Professor James Stirling FRS (Dept of Physics)

Technology Strategy Board (TSB)

Emerging Technologies and Industries Steering Group

• Professor Andrew Hopper – Chairman (Computer Lab)

UK Government Departments

Department of Energy and Climate Change

• Professor David Mackay – Chief Scientific Advisor (Dept of Physics)

Ministry of Defence

• Professor Mark Welland – Chief Scientific Advisor (Dept of Engineering)

Wellcome Trust

Cell and Developmental Biology Expert Review Group (ERG)

• Professor Margaret Robinson (CIMR)

Cell and Developmental Biology ERG

• Professor Fiona Watt (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute)

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ERG

• Professor David Rubinsztein – Co-Chair (Dept of Medical Genetics)

Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health ERG

• Professor Daniel Wolpert (Dept of Engineering)

Genetics, Genomics and Population Research ERG

• Professor John Danesh Dep – Chair (Dept of Public Health and Primary Care)

Immune System in Health and Disease ERG

• Professor Paul Lehner – Chair (CIMR)

Interview Committee: Clinical

• Professor Sadaf Farooqi (Dept of Clinical Biochemistry)

Interview Committee: Public Health & Tropical Medicine

• Professor David Dunne (Dept of Pathology)

Interview Committee: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Professor Paul Fletcher (Dept of Psychiatry)
• Professor Gillian Griffiths (CIMR)

Interview Committee: Ethics & Society

• Dr Kathy Liddell (Faculty of Law)

Seeding Drug Discovery Committee

• Professor Peter Leadlay (Dept of Biochemistry)

Cancer Research UK (CRUK)

Scientific Executive Board

• Professor Sir Bruce Ponder – Attends (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute)

Science Strategy Advisory Group

• Professor Tony Kouzarides (Gurdon Institute)
• Professor Sir Bruce Ponder (CRUK Cambridge Research Institute)

British Heart Foundation (BHF)

Council (and Trustee)

• Professor Kay-Tee Khaw (Dept of Public Health and Primary Care)
• Professor Patrick Sissons (School of Clinical Medicine)

Council

• Professor Morris Brown (Dept of Medicine)

Project Grants Committee

• Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (Dept of Clinical Biochemistry)

Chairs and Programme Grants Committee

• Professor Nick Wareham (Institute of Public Health)

Fellowships Committee

• Professor Martin R Bennett (Dept of Medicine)

Leverhulme Trust

Research Awards Advisory Committee

• Prof Martin Daunton (Faculty of History)

Royal Society

Council

• Professor Dame Jean Thomas Biological – Sec (Dept of Biochemistry)
• Professor John Pyle (Dept of Chemistry)
• Professor Trevor Robbins (Dept of Experimental Psychology)
• Professor Anthony Cheetham (Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy)
• Professor Andrew Hopper (Computer Lab)

British Academy

Council

• Professor Martin Millett – Vice-President (Faculty of Classics)
• Professor Sarah Worthington (Faculty of Law)
• Professor Megan Vaughan (Faculty of History)
• Professor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics)

European Research Council (ERC)

Scientific Council

• Professor Henrietta Moore (Dept of Social Anthropology)

Starting Grant Panel on Interdisciplinary Research

• Professor Simon Goldhill – Chair (Faculty of Classics)

Starting Grant Panel SH5 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Professor Simon Goldhill – Member, Chair (Faculty of Classics)

Starting Grant Panel SH6 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011

• Professor Mary Beard (Faculty of Classics)

Starting Grant Panel LS3 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012

• Professor Daniel St Johnston – Member, Chair (Gurdon Institute)

Starting Grant Panel LS3 2007, 2009, 2010

• Dr Julie Ahringer (Gurdon Institute)

Starting Grant Panel LS8 2007, 2009, 2010

• Professor Paul Brakefield (Dept of Zoology)

Starting Grant Panel LS6 2010

• Professor Duncan Maskell (Dept of Veterinary Medicine)

Starting Grant Panel PE4 2009, 2010

• Professor John Robertson (Dept of Engineering)

Advanced Grant Panel LS8 2009

• Professor Michael Akam (Dept of Zoology)

Advanced Grant Panel LS5 2009, 2011

• Professor Roger Barker – Member, Chair (Dept of Clinical Neurosciences)

Advanced Grant Panel LS8 2008, 2010

• Professor Nicola Clayton (Dept of Experimental Psychology)

Advanced Grant Panel PE9 2008, 2010

• Professor Andrew Fabian (Institute of Astronomy)

Advanced Grant Panel PE10 2009

• Professor John Pyle (Dept of Chemistry)

Advanced Grant Panel SH4 2009

• Professor David Sedley (Faculty of Classics)