Executive Committee members 2021/22

The affairs of the Institute are planned, organised and managed by the ISTR Executive Committee which is made up from ISTR Members who are elected (at the Annual General Meeting) and co-opted (by the Executive Committee).
The committee meets several times a year. The dates and the agenda are published here.
For more information or if you want to raise an issue for discussion please contact the ISTR Secretary. More details can be found in the ISTR Constitution.



Officers

Jon Gawn

Chair  (2 years from 2021)
Independent Biosafety Consultant
jon@GMBSC.co.uk

Liz McMinn

Past Chair (1 year from 2021)
Manchester Metropolitan University
l.mcminn@mmu.ac.uk

Jillian Deans

Secretary (2 years from 2021)
MRC LMB Cambridge
jdeans@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

Mark Cheshire

Treasurer (1 year from 2021)
Retired
istr-treasurer@istr.org.uk

Catherine Davidge

Events Co-ordinator (2 years from 2021)
University of Manchester
istr-eventssecretary@istr.org.uk

Philip Bailie

Membership Secretary (1 year from 2020)
Retired
istr-membership@istr.org.uk

Elected Members

Lawrence Dickson

(2 years from 2021)
University of Edinburgh
lawrence.dickson@ed.ac.uk

Anne Miller

(2 years from 2021)
Retired
annemrharris@gmail.com

Mark Elsdon

(2 years from 2020)
University of Cambridge
biosciences-safety@admin.cam.ac.uk

Dev Agarwal 

(2 years from 2020)
UCL
dev.agarwal@ucl.ac.uk

Alice Gallagher

(2 years from 2020)
University of Glasgow
alice.gallagher@glasgow.ac.uk

Chris Pirson

(2 years from 2022)
University of Aberystwyth
chp62@aber.ac.uk

Co-opted Members

Andy Minnis

Communications (1 year from 2021)
UK Biobank
Andrew.Minnis@ukbiobank.ac.uk

Daniel Harrison
(1 year from 2021)
University of Sheffield
d.j.harrison@sheffield.ac.uk

Marian Blokpoel

(1 year from 2021)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Marian.Blokpoel@LSHTM.ac.uk


Chris Hews

(1 year from 2021)
Camfil
chris.hews@camfil.com

June Freeland
(1 year from 2021)
A3DE
junemlfreeland@gmail.com