CURRENT COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS
Medical Research Council (MRC) Stem Cell Clinical Liaison Committee (2003 - Present)
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)/British Standards Institute (BSi) - PAS 83 - "Guidance on standards, standardised methods and regulation for cell-based therapeutics, from basic research to clinical application" - Steering Committee Member (2004 - 2006)
Measurement Advisory Committee Working Group - The Measurement for Emerging Technologies (MET) Programme (a National Measurement System (NMS) Programme) - Department of Trade and Industry/National Physical Laboratory/LGC (2004 - Present)
Medical Device Technology Innovation Forum - Cofounder - Inaugural meeting: July 2005 - Olympia, London, UK
London Regenerative Medicine Network (LRMN) - Cofounder and Co-organiser with Dr. Stephen Minger (King’s College London) - (April 2005 - Present)
UK Stem Cell Initiative - Report & Recommendations (November 2005): Contributor
British Collaborative Group on Stem Cell Repair of the Heart - (July 2005 - Present)
"Regenerative Medicine" journal - Future Medicine Ltd (London, UK) - Associate Editor - (October 2005 - Present)
"Medical Device Technology" journal - Canon Communications LLC (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Editorial Advisory Board - (May 2006 - Present)
Mission Leader of the DTI funded Global Watch Mission "Advanced Cell & Tissue Therapies" scheduled to visit the West Coast of North America in September 2006. The purpose of the mission is to gain first hand knowledge of the advances being made in the USA and Canada with respect to the translation and commercialisation of stem cell and regenerative medicine technologies. The printed mission report was made available from January 2007.
"Nanomedicine" journal - Future Medicine Ltd (London, UK) - Editorial Board - (August 2006 - Present)
"Tissue Engineering" journal - Mary Ann Liebert Inc. (New Rochelle, NY, USA) - Editorial Board (January 2007 - Present)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) - Engineering & Biological Systems Committee (EBS) (October 2006 - Present)
UK National Stem Cell Network (UKNSCN) - Steering Committee (December 2006 - Present)
British Standards Institute (BSi) PAS 84 - Terms and Definitions used within Regenerative Medicine - Member of the PAS Steering Group + Member of the Committee Drafting Scheme (CDS) Steering Group (April 2007 to Present)
Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King's College London - Associate Fellow (May 2007 - Present). CBAS specialises in social science research on the interactions between medicine, science and society.
5th Anniversary Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology (IDDST) hosted by Biteomics Inc. - Shanghai, China - May 2007 - Scientific Advisory Board
Public dialogue project on the science and social and ethical issues of stem cell research - Member of the Oversight Group (July 2007 to Present). The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are developing a public dialogue project around the science and social and ethical issues of stem cell research, with funding from the Department of Trade and Industry’s Sciencewise programme.
3rd World Congress on Regenerative Medicine - 18th-20th October 2007 - Leipzig, Germany - Advisory Board + Chair
Commercial Translation for Regenerative Medicine - Marcus Evans - 15th-16th November 2007 - London, UK - Scientific Advisory Board + Chair
MBI Stem Cell + Regenerative Medicine Bioprocessing - 18th-20th February 2008 - UCL, London, UK - Module Leader
European Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Congress - 5th-7th May 2008, London - Terrapinn Ltd. (London, UK) - Scientific Advisory Board + Chair
Stem Cell Summit - BioMedical Asia 2008 - BioTherapeutics - Singapore - April 2008 - Scientific Advisory Board
MEMBERSHIPS
General Medical Council - Registered Medical Practitioner - GMC Registration Number: 4121734
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) + Member of the Council of the Medical Genetics Section
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri)
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS)
MAIN AREAS OF INTERESTS
The translation into everyday technology of the fantastic science being undertaken in the areas of regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy + strategies for engineering negligible senescence (SENS).
