MRC Centres of Research Excellence Outline Panel

Membership from 1 February 2025

Panel members include:

  • Professor Doreen Cantrell (Chair), University of Dundee
  • Professor Wendy Barclay, Imperial College London
  • Professor Michael Barnes, QMUL
  • Professor Jose Bengoechea, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
  • Professor David Bennett, University of Oxford
  • Professor Kev Dhaliwal, The University of Edinburgh
  • Professor William Dixon, The University of Manchester
  • Professor Muzlifah Haniffa, University of Newcastle
  • Professor Graham Hart, University College London
  • Dr Emma Huang, Engitix Therapeutics
  • Professor Beth Jefferies, University of York
  • Professor Louise Kenny, University of Liverpool
  • Dr Alison Maloney, Dark Blue Therapeutics
  • Professor Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Crick Institute
  • Professor Jo Morris, University of Birmingham
  • Professor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol
  • Professor Leonie Taams, King’s College London
  • Professor Satpal Virdee, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, Dundee University

See the panel’s conflicts of interest register.

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Last updated: 11 April 2025

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