Annex 1 - Letter from Minister for Universities,
Science and Cities
Correspondence from The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP,
Minister for Universities, Science and Cities
CHAIR OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
RESEARCH COUNCIL (BBSRC)
I am writing to inform you that I have identified
Sir Gordon Duff as the Government's candidate to be the new Chair
of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
and to invite the Science and Technology Select Committee to hold
a pre-appointment hearing in line with the procedure agreed in
the Government's Response to the Liaison Committee's First Report
of Session 2007-08, HC 594.
Sir Gordon is Principal, St Hilda's College Oxford.
He chairs the Strategic Partners Board of the Imperial Academic
Health Science Centre. He also chairs the Medical Research Council-National
Institute of Health Research's National Phenome Centre (Imperial
College), the Scientific Advisory Board of the Medical Research
Council Centre for Drug Safety Sciences (Liverpool) and the Scientific
Advisory Board of Interleukin Genetics Inc, Boston. He also serves
on the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute
for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University
of Pennsylvania. He was previously Chair of the MHRA (UK national
regulator of medicines and medical devices).
The current Biotechnology and Biological Sciences
Research Council Chair Sir Tom Blundell steps down on 30 June
2015.
I annex details of the legal basis of the appointment
and the recruitment process (Annex A), and attach the information
pack for candidates which includes a job description and person
specification and terms and conditions (Annex B) and Professor
Sir Gordon Duff's CV (Annex C).
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