Experimental Medicine Panel

Membership from 1 April 2026

  • Professor Charlotte Summers (Chair), University of Cambridge
  • Professor Sara Brown (Deputy Chair), The University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Geor Bakker, Consultant for Sosei Heptares and Neurocrine Biosciences
  • Dr Martin Davey, The University of Warwick
  • Professor Johann de Bono, The Institute of Cancer Research
  • Dr Abdel Douiri, King’s College London
  • Professor Deena Gibbons, King’s College London
  • Dr Baktiar Hassan, Sanofi
  • Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, University of Oxford
  • Professor Melanie Madhani, University of Birmingham
  • Professor Iain McNeish, Imperial College London
  • Professor Claire Meek, University of Leicester
  • Professor David Moore, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
  • Dr Jessica Neisen, AstraZeneca
  • Dr Elisabeth Rounis, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and University of Cambridge
  • Professor Nigel Stallard, The University of Warwick
  • Professor Francis Stephens, University of Exeter
  • Professor David Thickett, University of Birmingham
  • Dr Roger Thompson, The University of Sheffield
  • Dr Lance Turtle, University of Liverpool
  • Professor Alastair Webb, Imperial College London

See the Experimental Medicine Panel conflicts of interest register

Associates

  • Dr Rebecca Cusack, University of Southampton
  • Dr Caroline Haig, Robertson Centre for Biostatistics
  • Dr Rajarshi Mukherjee, University of Liverpool
  • Dr Luciana Torquati, University of Exeter

See the Experimental Medicine Panel Associates conflicts of interest register

Contacts

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Last updated: 18 May 2026

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