The Babraham Institute receives strategic funding from the BBSRC
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Professor Douglas Kell has today started as the new Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK's leading funding agency for academic research and training in the non-clinical life sciences. The Babraham Institute receives strategic funding from the BBSRC.
Speaking in an interview for the BBSRC website, Prof Kell, said: “Having had funding from BBSRC over almost all of its remit over the years I have a broad interest in taking forward the kind of science that BBSRC has been sponsoring for a long time. Having been fortunate enough to be chosen to be Chief Executive, I’m really looking forward to this once in a lifetime opportunity.”
The interview in full, where Prof Kell speaks about his thoughts on taking over the leadership of BBSRC, is available to watch and to download from: www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2008/081001_new_chief_executive.html
Prof Kell succeeds Prof Julia Goodfellow, who left BBSRC in September 2007 to take up the role of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent. Steve Visscher has been serving as Interim Chief Executive during the intervening period. Prof Kell said: “I am fortunate to be following Julia and Steve who both worked hard and effectively to put BBSRC in a tremendous position to exploit bioscience opportunities in the future. Julia was instrumental in placing predictive and systems biology at the centre of BBSRC’s strategy five years ago, a move that was highly prescient. Steve has steered the Council through a period of great change over the last year and played a key role in helping to secure a good settlement for the biosciences in the last spending review.”
Prof Kell was previously Professor of Bioanalytical Science at the University of Manchester and Director of the BBSRC-funded Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. He has a long association and involvement with BBSRC and BBSRC science. He has been a member of BBSRC Council and served on a number of further panels and boards for the Research Council. This included chairing a key review of BBSRC bioenergy research in 2006.
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About BBSRC
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences. Sponsored by Government, BBSRC annually invests around £420 million in a wide range of research that makes a significant contribution to the quality of life for UK citizens and supports a number of important industrial stakeholders including the agriculture, food, chemical, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. www.bbsrc.ac.uk
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