Meet Our Science Committee

We are fortunate to have a panel of scientific advisors at Humanimal Trust, made up of leading human and animal health professionals, academics and researchers from around the world.

They work independently to support our Board of Trustees, reviewing grant applications and recommending projects to be funded within our priority areas. These projects will all be designed to bring about a better understanding of One Medicine and support its global implementation.

Professor Roberto La Ragione, Chair of Trustees at Humanimal Trust and Interim Chair of the Science Committee, said: “We know that One Medicine has transformative potential across all areas of medicine where physiological and genetic similarities exist between humans and animals.

“Research that the Trust has previously funded has the potential to help improve the lives of both humans and animals with similar conditions, and with their combined professional experience, expertise and passion for One Medicine, our new Science Committee will ensure that we are on the right path to developing further evidence that a collaborative, One Medicine approach can benefit all patients, regardless of their species."

SCIENCE COMMITTEE - TERMS OF REFERENCE

 

Current Opportunities

Chair of Humanimal Trust’s Science Committee and Members of Humanimal Trust’s Science Committee

We are currently recruiting additional members for our Science Committee. If you are interested in finding out more, please click here

INTERIM CHAIR - SCIENCE COMMITTEE - Professor Roberto La Ragione BSc (Hons) MSc PhD FRSB CBiol FIBMS CSci AECVM FRCPath HonAssocRCVS - Surrey University Head of the School of Biosciences and Medicine and Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology
Miss Anna Radford MBBS, BSc, PGCert (Res), FRCS(Paeds), PhD - Consultant Paediatric Urologist and Surgeon Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Hull York Medical School & Honorary Clinical Lecturer University of Leeds
Helen Ballantyne MSc, BSc, PGDip, RVN, RN - Clinical Nurse Specialist for Living Kidney Donation
Dr Margarida Simoes RN, DMV, PhD - EUPHEM Fellow, Resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health.
Associate Professor Benjamin Capps Ph.D - Associate Professor in Clinical Ethics at Dalhousie University, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine and Chair of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Committee on Ethics, Law and Society
Professor Matthew Breen PhD CBiol FRSB - Professor of Genomics and Oscar J. Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Comparative Oncology Genetics in the Dept of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr James Yeates PhD MBA FRCVS - CEO of the World Federation for Animals
Professor Ali Mobasheri BSc(Hons), ARCS, MSc, DPh - Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology at the University of Oulu in Finland, Chief Researcher and International Advisor at the State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine in Vilnius, Lithuania
Professor Ashish Ranjan - Endowed Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Oklahoma State University, USA and Director of the Institute for Translational and Emerging Research in Advanced Comparative Therapy (INTERACT)
Iva Hauptmannova BSc (Hons), MA, O.A Dip – Humanimal Trust Research Support Consultant (and admin support for the Science Committee)