COT/COM/COC Annual Report 2023

Declaration of COM members’ interests during the period of this report -2023

Last updated: 15 January 2025

Chair

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).

Ex Officio Member, Committee on Carcinogenicity (Dept Health and Social Care) 2021-2027.

Member:

British Association for Cancer Research,

Senior Editor Mutagenesis (OUP),

Editorial Board (and former editor 2013-2015),

Mutation Research (Elsevier),

Health & Care Research Wales Grant panel (studentships) 2016-present.

Non-Personal Interest

Grants:

Cancer Research Wales (2023-2026).

Former Grants:

Health & Care Research Wales (2016-2020), MRC/AstraZeneca PhD studentship (ITTP scheme) (2019-2023). Cancer Research Wales grant (2019-2023).

External Examining roles (Bangor University DeMontfort University, University of Milan),

National Centre of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) (2018-2022),

NC3Rs grants (2012-2016 & 2010-2014),

Health & Care Research Wales (2016-2020, 2014-2017,

Unilever studentship (2014-2017),

MRC/AstraZeneca PhD studentship (ITTP scheme) (2019-2023),

Cancer Research Wales (2019-2023),

BBSRC/Algae UK grant (2020-2022).

Members

Dr Carol Beevers

Personal Interest

Employee:

Corteva Agriscience (from 01 September 2022).

Pension:

Covance,

Exponent International Ltd,

Broughton Group,

Corteva Agriscience (from September 2022).

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.

Member - Occupational Therapists Registration Board – Republic of Ireland.

Member - Medical Scientists Registration Board – Republic of Ireland.

Member of committees associated with impact evaluation and applications scrutiny for the Special EU Programmes body’.

Non-Personal Interest

Membership:

Public Ambassador – NHS England subsidiary board related to Digital Urgent & Emergency Care (DUEC),

Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group, DHSC,

Northern Ireland Practice and Education Council for Nursing and Midwifery (NIPEC).

Contributor:

Learned and professional development activities within the British Computer Society (chairing, committee and speaking responsibilities).

Trustee:

Myrovlytis Trust (funds research into rare diseases) – Chairing responsibility,

Regional inclusive volunteering charity – Chairing responsibility.

Professor Shareen Doak

Personal Interest

Employee:

Swansea University.

Consultancy:

CEFIC/Titanium Dioxide Manufacturers Association (TDMA).

Personal Interest

Memberships:

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),

Editor-In-Chief: Mutagenesis,

Member of The Scientific Advisory Group on Chemical Safety of Non-Food and Non-Medicinal Consumer Products (SAG-CS), Commissioned By The Office For Product Safety and Standards (OPSS),

Independent Member of The Health & Safety Executive (HSE), Science Quality Assurance Group (SQAG).

Non-personal Interest

Trustee:

St David’s Medical Foundation (medical research & education charity).

PhD Studentship Grant:

Lhasa Ltd (2023 – 2027).

Dr Paul Fowler

Personal Interest

Pension:

Unilever (UK),

Private Pension (FSTox Consulting Ltd).

Misc:

Fstox Consulting – Director.

Personal Interest

Membership:

IGG,

UKEMS (Committee Member),

Roundtable Of Toxicology, CONSULTANTS (RTC),

British Toxicology Society (BTS),

EEMGS (Committee Member).

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr Nathan Goldsmith

Personal Interest

Employee:

Exponent International Ltd.

Grants:

UKHSA (Potential Exposure to Carcinogens Following E-Cigarette Use).

Pension:

GlaxoSmithKline/GSK.

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:

ILC Therapeutics Ltd,

Benenox Ltd, UK – Non-executive Director (unpaid),

PathAlba Ltd – Director (unpaid) – dormant.

Consultant:

NHS Lothian – Honorary Consultant.

Shareholder:

VBL Ltd, UK,

Ryboquin Ltd, UK,

ILC Therapeutics Ltd.

Misc:

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

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

Misc:

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

Consultancy:

Fermenich,

Cefic,

American Chemistry Council,

Teva,

Greenberg Traurig Llp,

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Llp,

Janssen,

Merck.

Pension:

Uss. University Superannuation Scheme.

Director:

Gtox Ltd.

Personal Interest

Membership:

United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS),

HESI (committee member),

President of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS) 2019-2021,

EMA Expert Member,

IWGT, Expert Member,

ICEM, Committee Member.

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. Msc Tuition Fees. 2022.

Ms Julia Kenny

Personal Interest

Employee:

GlaxoSmithKline/GSK.

Pension:

GlaxoSmithKline.

Shareholder:

GSK,

HALEON.

Personal Interest

Membership:

UK Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS).

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).

Misc:

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

Departmental studentships:

Funded by industrial and other bodies.

Mr Paul Rawlinson

Personal Interest

Employee:

Nufarm Limited.

Pension:

Nufarm pension scheme,

St James Place,

Formerly Syngenta.

Personal Interest

Membership:

United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS).

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Ms Madeleine Wang

Personal Interest

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.