Professor Sian Harding, Campus Director for Hammersmith and White City, invites colleagues to hear Professor Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser speak on “Science in Government”.
Introduction by Professor Alice Gast, President of Imperial College London.
Lecture to be held virtually via Microsoft Teams Live. All Imperial staff and students welcome.
“Science in Government”
Sir Patrick Vallance, FRS FMedSci FRCP is Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the Government Science and Engineering (GSE) profession.
Patrick was President, R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from 2012 until 2017. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President, Medicines Discovery and Development. He joined the company in May 2006 as Head of Drug Discovery. He was a member of the GSK Board and the Corporate Executive Team. During his period as head of R&D over 14 new medicines were approved for use worldwide, for diseases ranging from cancer to asthma and HIV.
Prior to joining GSK, he was a clinical academic, Professor of Medicine and led the Division of Medicine at UCL. He has over 20 years’ experience of basic and clinical research, and was a consultant physician in the NHS. His research spanned from work on medicinal chemistry and structural biology, through to cellular work, studies in humans and use of large electronic health record databases.