Declaration of COT members interests during the period of this report 2021
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Skip the menu of subheadings on this page.Professo r Alan Boobis OBE, PhD, FBTS, FBPhS
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Employee: Imperial College London, Department of Medicine (retired June 2017, part-time appointment from Aug 2017-May 2019). Full retiral June 2019. Emeritus Professor of Imperial College London, National Heart & Lung Institute. |
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Membership: ILSI & ILSI,HESI Board of Trustees ILSI Europe. Board of Directors Science Advisory Board of Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology. Dept. of Health Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants WHO/FAO JMPR. WHO/FAO JECFA (vet). WHO TobReg. WG10 TC126 (Intense Machine- smoking Regime for Testing Cigarettes). EUROTOX. British Pharmacological Society, British Toxicology Society, Society of Toxicology (USA). Royal Society of Biology (until 2017). Michigan State University MSU Center for Research on Ingredient Safety (CRIS) (External Advisory Committee). Agency for Innovations in Food and Chemical Safety Programme. Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR) (Scientific Advisory Board). |
Non Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Phil Botham
Personal Interest |
Employee: Syngenta - Principal Science Advisor (part time). |
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Shareholder: AstraZeneca, Regulatory Science Associates (Part, Time Consultant). |
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Membership: British Toxicology Society, Society of Toxicology (USA), European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals Scientific Committee, European Crop Protection Association Toxicology Expert Group, Crop Life International Human Health Steering Team. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Ms Jane Case
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Employee: Company Secretary of Muse Interiors Stevens & Bolton LLP (as Jane Hughes). |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Personal Interest |
Shareholder: Standard Life Santander |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Stella Cochrane
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Employee: Unilever. |
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Membership / Affiliation: Unilever representative on the UK FDF Allergen Steering Group (Deputy Chair), FDE Allergen Group and University of Nebraska Food Allergy Research & Resources Board. |
Personal Interest |
Shareholder: Unilever. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr James Coulson
Personal Interest |
Employee: Cardiff University, Director of Medical, Scientific and Toxicology Consultancy Ltd. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: British Medical Association, British Pharmacology Society, British Toxicology Society National Trust, Royal College of Physicians of London. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr René Crevel
Personal Interest |
Consultant: Réne Crevel consulting. |
Personal Interest |
Membership/affiliation: ILSI Food Allergy Task Force: Chair. |
Personal Interest |
Shareholder : Unilever, Centrica, BG Group, National Grid, Lloyds. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson COT Member from June 2021.
Personal Interest |
Employee: Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Iceland. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: European Food Safety Authority - Scientific committee and various working groups. Nordic Council of Ministers - revision of the 2022 Nordic Nutrition Recommendation). Icelandic Risk Assessment Committee for Food, Feed, Fertilizers and Seeds (IRAC) – occasional expert work. The Nutricia Research Foundation – review of applications once a year. The Icelandic Research Found (RANNIS) – occasional member of different expert panels. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Caroline Harris
Personal Interest |
Employee: Exponent International Ltd. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. |
Personal Interest |
Shareholder: Exponent Inc. |
Personal Interest |
Fellowships: Royal Society of Chemistry. |
Non-Personal Interest |
Membership: Expert Committee on Pesticides. |
Professor Gary Hutchison
Personal Interest |
Employee: Dean of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee DEFRA, British Toxicology Society. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Sarah Judge
Personal Interest |
Employee: Newcastle University, Lowcock Properties Ltd. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: British Pharmacology Society, British Toxicology Society International Association for Neurotoxicology. |
Non-Personal Interest |
Research Funding. |
Professor Gunter Kuhnle
Personal Interest |
Employee: Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Reading. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr David Lovell
Personal Interest |
Employee: Reader in Medical Statistics, St Georges Medical School University of London. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: HESI GTTC – Biometrics Society, British Toxicology Society Genetics Society, Royal Society of Biology Laboratory Animal Science Association, Royal Statistical Society Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry, United Kingdom Environment Mutagen Society (UKEMS), UK National Centre of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), MRC EMINENT Scientific Review Board.
Also, private member of: British Trust of Ornithologists (BTO) English Heritage, Liberty, Campaign of the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), Kew Gardens, Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust (SBBOT), Chelsea Physic Garden, National Trust. |
Personal Interest |
Shareholder: National Grid, Pfizer, AstraZeneca (spouse shareholder), National Grid plc (spouse shareholder). |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor Shirley Price COT Member since June 2021.
Personal Interest |
Employee: None. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
Trusteeships: Gas Safety Trust |
Non-Personal Interest |
Other: I can confirm that as the President of the British Toxicology Society (BTS) I hold a non-personal and non-specific interest in both GSK and AstraZeneca on the Society’s behalf. These non-personal and non-specific interests relate to donations provided by both companies to the British Toxicology Society (BTS) to support their Annual Congress and Education and Training. |
Dr Mac Provan
Personal Interest |
Employee: Director of Regulatory Science Ltd. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Ms Juliet Rix
Personal Interest |
Employee: None. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Cheryl Scudamore
Personal Interest |
Employee: Independent consultant in experimental and toxicological pathology. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Natalie Thatcher
Personal Interest |
Employee: Mondelēz International. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor Mireille Toledano
Personal Interest |
Employee: Marit Mohn Chair in Perinatal & Paediatric Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Dr Simon Wilkinson COT Member since June 2021.
Personal Interest |
Consultancies and other fee-paid work: Consultancy for L’Oreal, Paris. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor Philippe Wilson
Personal Interest |
Employee: Nottingham Trent University, Rare Breeds Survival Trust. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: None. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |
Professor Matthew Wright
Personal Interest |
Consultancies and Direct Employment: Newcastle University. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: British Toxicology Society, Society of Toxicology (US), EFSA FAF Panel. |
Personal Interest |
Miscellaneous: Toxicology – Associate Editor. |
Non-Personal Interest |
Support by Industry: GSK, Lubrizol. |
Professor Maged Younes
Personal Interest |
Employee: Independent expert in toxicology and biochemical pharmacology. |
Personal Interest |
Membership: Chair of EFSA ANS panel, Chair Commission on evidence-based methods in risk assessment, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BFr), Germany. Society of Toxicology, USA German Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. Society for Risk Analysis. |
Non-Personal Interest |
None. |