Select Committee on Science and Technology Fourth Report

WRITTEN MEMORANDA

1	Medical Research Council	Ev 49, 172
2	John D Spencer	Ev 55
3	Dr William James, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford	Ev 56
4	N Michael Green, Department of Mathematical Biology, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 56, 170
5	Jacky Smith, Head Technician in Developmental Biology and Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 57
6	Dr J M Wilson and Dr D H Williamson, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 57
7	Dr Pushpa Bhargava, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad	Ev 57
8	Dr Robb Krumlauf, Scientific Director, Stowers Institute for Medical Research	Ev 59
9	Professor Dr Fritz Melchers, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin	Ev 60
10	Dr Robert B Belshe, Saint Louis University	Ev 60
11	Professor Stafford Lightman, University of Bristol	Ev 61
12	Professor Stephen Challacombe, King's College London	Ev 62
13	Professor Sir David Weatherall, University of Oxford	Ev 62
14	Professor Kay E Davies, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 65
15	Professor A R Bellamy, University of Auckland	Ev 65
16	Professor Andrew Read, University of Edinburgh	Ev 66
17	Dr Michael Oldstone, Scripps Research Institute	Ev 67
18	Dr Robert L Coffman, Dynavax	Ev 67
19	Professor Brian D Sykes, University of Alberta	Ev 68
20	Focus UK	Ev 68
21	Anne McLaren, Gurdon Institute	Ev 69
22	Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics	Ev 69
23	Dr Peter J M Openshaw, Imperial College London	Ev 70
24	Dr Douglas Robinson, Imperial College London	Ev 70
25	Professor Tony Magee, University of Manchester	Ev 71
26	Professor Richard Flavell, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 72
27	Dr Robin Holliday	Ev 72
28	Professor Alan R North, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 73
29	Professor Peter N Campbell, University College London	Ev 74
30	Professor William Russell, University of Arkansas	Ev 74
31	Professor Anne Cooke, Cambridge University	Ev 75
32	Professor P M Biggs	Ev 76
33	Professor Alan Gilbert, University of Manchester	Ev 77
34	Dr Katie Petty-Saphon, Council of Heads of Medical Schools	Ev 77
35	Professor Stephen Tomlinson, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 77
36	Professor N J Rothwell, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 78
37	Professor Simon Howell, King's College London	Ev 79
38	Dr Jonathan Cooke	Ev 80, 171
39	Professor Thomas A Steitz, Yale University	Ev 82
40	Jackie Wilbraham	Ev 83
41	Public and Commercial Services Union	Ev 85
42	Professor Trevor Jones, King's College London	Ev 85
43	Professor Adrian Newland, Royal College of Pathologists	Ev 85
44	Dr E M Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland	Ev 86
45	Professor Olugbemiro, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria	Ev 87
46	Dr R Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	Ev 88
47	Professor Neil Brockendorff, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre	Ev 90
48	Professor Dario Alessi, University of Dundee	Ev 90
49	Career Track Scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 91
50	International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	Ev 92
51	Dr Anthony Holder, Medical Research Council	Ev 93
52	Professor John Walker, Medical Research Council	Ev 94
53	Professor Peter Weissberg, Cambridge University	Ev 95
54	Professor G Michael Blackburn, Krebs Institute, Sheffield University	Ev 95
55	University of Edinburgh	Ev 96
56	Dr Jamshed R Tata, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 96
57	Professor Dafydd Walters, St George's Hospital Medical School	Ev 98
58	Professor Elizabeth Simpson, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre	Ev 98
59	Dr Kathleen Mathers, Medical Research Council	Ev 100, 223
60	Professor Donald Steiner, University of Chicago	Ev 102
61	National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 102, 174, 179
62	Brian Mahy, National Centre for Infectious Diseases	Ev 104
63	Amicus	Ev 104
64	Anna O'Garra, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 105
65	Robert Solari, Medical Research Council Technology	Ev 108
66	Professor Hindmarsh and Dr Dattani, University College London	Ev 110
67	Professor Jim Smith, Cambridge University	Ev 112
68	Kenneth Fleming, University of Oxford	Ev 113
69	Dr E F Gevers, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 114
70	Steven Ley, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 116
71	Gordon Reid, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 117
72	Professor B Askomas, Imperial College London	Ev 118
73	Professor Sanjeev Khrishna, St George's Hospital Medical School	Ev 118
74	Association of University Teachers	Ev 119
75	Professor Grant and Professor Trainer, University College London	Ev 121
76	Professor Grahame Bullfield, University of Edinburgh	Ev 121
77	Professor Andrew Michael, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford	Ev 122
78	Professor Christopher Edwards, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Ev 123
79	Professor Guy Dodson, University of York	Ev 124
80	Professor Sir Paul Nurse, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 128
81	Professor Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University	Ev 128
82	Royal Society of Edinburgh	Ev 129
83	Professor Kathy Cheah, University of Hong Kong	Ev 131
84	National Institute of Health	Ev 132
85	Professor Moncada, Wolfson Institute	Ev 134
86	Elizabeth Hirst	Ev 134
87	Dr Steve Gamblin, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 135
88	Heads of Division Committee, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 137
89	Professor Peter Rigby, Institute of Cancer Research	Ev 139
90	Dr Ralph Schoepfer, University College London	Ev 140
91	Professor Robert Liddington, Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California	Ev 141
92	Langhorne Laboratory	Ev 142
93	Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 143
94	Dr Justin Molloy, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 146
95	Professor Amanda Fisher, Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital	Ev 149
96	Professor Dame Louise Johnson, University of Oxford	Ev 150
97	Dr Hazel Dockrell, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Ev 150
98	Professor Chris Higgins, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre	Ev 151
99	Professor Sir Philip Cohen, University of Dundee	Ev 152
100	Professor Iain Robinson, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 153
101	BioIndustry Association	Ev 155
102	Professor Andrew Garner, University of Manchester	Ev 156
103	Sir David Cooksey, Advent Venture Partners	Ev 157
104	Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Health	Ev 158
105	Professor David Trentham	Ev 160
106	Academy of Medical Sciences	Ev 161
107	Professor Critchley and Professor Calder, University of Edinburgh	Ev 162
108	Professor John Bell, University of Oxford	Ev 162
109	Professor James Fawcett, Cambridge University	Ev 163
110	Professor Tony Minson, Department of Pathology, Cambridge University	Ev 164
111	Professor Frank Grosveld, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam	Ev 164
112	Research Councils UK, Executive Group	Ev 165
113	David Kerr, NTRAC	Ev 165
114	Professor John Bell, University of Oxford	Ev 166
115	Professor James Fawcett, University of Cambridge	Ev 166
116	David Smith, former Secretary to the MRC Task Force on NIMR	Ev 168
117	Professor Edwin Taylor,	Ev 169
118	Alison Spaull, Director, Chief Scientist Office, Edinburgh	Ev 169
119	Professor Richard R Denton, former MRC Task Force member on the NIMR	Ev 169
120	Sir John Skehel, Director, National Institute for Medical Research	Ev 173
121	Sir Anthony Cleaver, Chairman, Medical Research Council	Ev 180
122	Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council	Ev 180, 186, 188, 212, 221, 241
123	Fiona Fox Director, Science Media Centre	Ev 222
124	Email correspondence, between Task Force members, not in the public domain but referred to in the Report	Ev 223

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Prepared 8 February 2005