Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Michael Neuberger (Chairman)

Joint Head of the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge UK.

His research interests include immunity and DNA deamination.

Professor John Danesh

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Cambridge, Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Honorary Co-Director of the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge UK, and is the UK Department of Health's representative on the Science Committee of the UK Biobank.

His research interests include the biochemical and genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease in large-scale epidemiological studies.

Professor Anthony Green

Professor of Haematological Oncology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge UK.

His research interests include hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia.

Professor David McKay

Professor of Natural Philosophy and a Gatsby Senior Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge UK.

His research interests include Bayesian probability theory and its application to inference problems.

Professor Steve O'Rahilly

Professor of Metabolic Medicine, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge UK.

His research interests include clinical studies of obesity and insulin resistance, and how these two phenomena interlink to predispose to metabolic disease especially in type 2 diabetes.

Professor Ashok Ventikaraman

is the Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of New Hall College, Cambridge UK.

His research interests include chromosomal instability, cancer and translating molecular insights into clinical practice.