2022 Membership of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
In this guide
In this guideChairman
Professor Gareth Jenkins
Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Swansea University.
Members
Dr Carol Beevers
Regulatory Toxicology, Corteva Agriscience.
Amit Bhagwat
Lay Member.
Professor Shareen Doak
Professor of Genotoxicology & Cancer, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Swansea University.
Dr Ann Doherty (From July 2022)
Head of Safety Innovation, Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Sciences, AstraZeneca.
Dr Paul Fowler
FSTox Consulting.
Dr Nathan Goldsmith (From September 2022)
Associate Member, Exponent.
Professor David Harrison MD DSc FRCPath FRCPEd FRCSEd
Professor of Pathology, University of St Andrews.
Dr George Johnson
Associate Professor, Swansea University Medical School.
Ms Julia Kenny
Nonclinical Safety Project Toxicologist, GSK.
Dr Andrew Povey
Reader in Molecular Epidemiology, University of Manchester.
Mr Paul Rawlinson (from July 2022)
Gentronix Ltd.
Mrs Madeleine Wang
Lay Member.
Secretariat
Dr Ovnair Sepai
PHE Scientific Secretary.
Dr D Gott BSc (Hons) PhD
FSA Scientific Secretary.
Mrs N Blowfield
Administrative Secretary.
Declaration of members interests during the period of this report
Professor Gareth Jenkins
|
Personal Interest |
Employer Swansea University. Honorary Contract Swansea Bay University Health board. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership President of United Kingdom Environment Mutagen Society (UKEMS) 2020-2023. British Association for Cancer Research. Senior Editor Mutagenesis (OUP), Editorial Board (and former editor 2013-2015) Mutation Research (Elsevier). President of the International Association of Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Societies (IAEMGS). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Grants National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) (2018-2022). Former grants Health & Care Research Wales (2016-2020, 2014-2017. MRC/AstraZeneca PhD studentship (ITTP scheme) (2019-2023). Cancer Research Wales grants (2023-2026 and 2019-2023). External Examining roles (Bangor University DeMontfort University, University of Milan). |
Dr Carol Beevers
|
Personal Interest |
Employee Exponent International Ltd (up to 27 July 2021). Broughton Group (from 01 September 2021). Corteva Agriscience (from 01 September 2022). |
|
Personal Interest |
Pension Covance, Exponent, Broughton, Corteva Agriscience (from September 2022). |
|
Personal Interest |
Shareholder ITM Power, NIO Inc, Blackberry. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership HESI GTTC (workgroup member). OECD (workgroup member). IWGT (work group chair). United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Mr Amit Bhagwat
|
Personal Interest |
Owner and Shareholder Research and Consulting Business. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Public Governor (Rest of England & Wales). British Computer Society – the Chartered Institute for IT - Chair/Volunteer for Learned Events and Public Service Activities. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Membership Public Ambassador – NHS England subsidiary board related to Digital Urgent & Emergency Care (DUEC). Committee on Mutagenicity (COM). Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group, DHSC. Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Contributor Learned and professional development activities within the British Computer Society (chairing, committee and speaking responsibilities). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Trustee Myrovlytis Trust (funds research into rare diseases) – Chairing responsibility. Regional inclusive volunteering charity – Chairing responsibility. |
Professor Shareen Doak
|
Personal Interest |
Employee Swansea University. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS). Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). ILSI HESI (committee member). British Toxicology Society (BTS). Scientific Advisory Group on Chemical Safety of Non-Food and Non-Medical Consumer Products (SAG-CS). Independent member of the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), Science Quality Assurance Group (SQAG). Commissioned by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). Editor-in-Chief: Mutagenesis. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Trustee St David’s Medical Foundation (medical research & education charity). PhD Studentship Grants Unilever (2017 – 2020), AstraZeneca (2009 – 20160, Unilever (2010 -2017). Research Grant 2008 – 2010. Hoffman-LaRoche, Unilever. |
Dr Ann Doherty (From July 2022).
|
Personal Interest
|
Employee AstraZeneca. Pension AstraZeneca. Shareholder AstraZeneca. |
|
Personal Interest
|
Membership ILSI HESI GTTC member, British Toxicology Society, MRC Toxicology Unit Review Board member. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Paul Fowler
|
Personal Interest |
Pension Unilever (UK), Covance. |
|
Personal Interest |
Miscellaneous De Montfort University – External Examiner. FSTox Consulting – Director. |
|
Personal Interest |
Shareholder Unilever, Lloyds. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership IGG (committee member), UKEMS (committee member), Rountable of Toxicology Consultants (RTC), British Toxicology Society (BTS), EEMGS (committee member), ILSI HESI GTTC member. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None |
Dr Nathan Goldsmith (From September 2022).
|
Personal Interest |
Employee Exponent International Ltd. |
|
Personal Interest |
Grants UKHSA (Potential exposure to carcinogens following e-cigarette use). |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership British Toxicology Society, (BTS). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor David Harrison
|
Personal Interest |
Employee University of St Andrews, UK, NuCana plc, UK. Employee/Non-executive Director LC Therapeutics Ltd, Benenox Ltd, UK – Non-executive Director (unpaid), PathAlba Ltd – Director (unpaid) – dormant. |
|
Personal Interest |
Consultant NHS Lothian – Honorary Consultant. |
|
Personal Interest |
Miscellaneous Cunningham Trust – (Medical Research Charity) Trustee, University of Edinburgh, UK – Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow, UK – Honorary Professor, University of Florida, Adjunct Professor, Viewbank Leuchars Ltd – Director (no salary). |
|
Personal Interest |
Shareholder VBL Ltd, UK, Ryboquin Ltd, UK, ILC Therapeutics Ltd. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership Fellow Royal College of Pathologists, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. |
|
Non Personal Interest |
Miscellaneous iCAIRD research consortium – Director (unpaid role), Pilgrim Care St Andrews (charity for the elderly) – Trustee (unpaid role). Visiopharm – Member, Scientific Advisory Board. EU Horizon 2020, Partner in KATY Award, grant support. Innovate UK/UKRI – Director of iCAIRD. |
Dr George Johnson
|
Personal Interest |
Employee: Swansea university. Consultancy: Fermenich, CEFIC, American Chemistry Council, Teva, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Janssen, Medicines for Europe, Merck. Director: GTox ltd. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS), HESI GTTC chair), President of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS) 2019-2021, EMA expert member, IWGT, expert member, ICEM, committee member, British and European registered toxicologist. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Relevant Grant Funding: GSK, post-doctoral research funding – 2021-2022. nitrosamine research. SCIENSANO. MYCX-IT. 2020-ongoing. EMA. funding through Fraunhofer item. 2022-2023. HESI. fast fund. phd tuition fees. 2022-ongoing. |
Ms Julia Kenny
|
Personal Interest |
Employee GlaxoSmithKline/GSK |
|
Personal Interest |
Shareholder GSK, Haleon. |
|
Personal Interest |
Pension GlaxoSmithKline |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None |
Dr Andrew Povey
|
Personal Interest |
Shareholder Lloyds, Standard Life, Halifax, Santander (Partner Shareholder), Norwich Union (Partner Shareholder), Roadchef Topco Ltd (Partner Shareholder). Miscellaneous European Crop Protection Agency – Part of consortium awarded grant on exposure assessment. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership UK Molecular Epidemiology Group (UK-MEG), UK Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Molecular Epidemiology Group (MEG), British Association for Cancer Research (BACR). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
Miscellaneous Departmental studentships funded by industrial and other bodies. |
Mr Paul Rawlinson (From July 2022).
|
Personal Interest |
Employee Gentronix Limited. Pension St James Place, Formerly Syngenta. |
|
Personal Interest |
Membership HESI GTTC (workgroup member), IGG (committee member), United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS). |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Ms Madeleine Wang
|
Personal Interest |
None. |
|
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |