Emerita Professor Shirley Price - Deputy Chair

An image of Emerita Professor Shirley Price outside in front of green foliage, wearing a black and white top.

Bio

Professor Price is currently Emerita Professor of Toxicology at the University of Surrey having held a number of senior posts at the University. Professor Price has, over the course of her academic career, been instrumental in providing training programmes in toxicology to industry, regulators and academics and forming strong personal networks. Professor Price currently chairs the British Toxicology Society Skills (BTS) Gap Initiative Steering Committee and Advisory Board. This initiative aims is to increase the number of people being taught and trained in regulatory toxicology within the UK.

Professor Price is also a Visiting Professor of Toxicology at the University of Hertfordshire and holds an Honorary Professorship in Toxicology with the UKHSA.

Professor Price has over 35 years’ experience in toxicology specialising in mechanisms of toxicity, risk assessment of chemicals, combined effects of chemical mixtures at low exposure levels and the systemic effect of non-genotoxic carcinogens.

Professor Price served as the President of the British Toxicology Society from 2020-2022 and is currently the General Secretary. She is an Honorary Fellow of the British Toxicology Society and Fellow of  the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Price has worked on a number of government committees including the World Health Organisation’s Reproductive Unit, Veterinary Residues Committee and the Commissioner for the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) Paediatrics Expert Advisory Committee. In May 2014 she was appointed as a Commissioner for the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). She is  a member of a number of Expert Working Groups and Advisory Groups within CHM. She is Deputy Chair and Member of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) and is currently serving a second term on the COT. She is also on the Register of Specialists (Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) and the Register of Experts  for the Joint European Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).  She is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group on Chemical Safety of Non-Food and Non-Medicinal Consumer Products (SAG-CS), Office for Product Safety and Standards. 

Professor Price is a trustee of the British Toxicology Society and the Carbon Monoxide Research Trust (CORT) . She also sits on a number of committees within the Royal Societies of Chemistry and Biology.

Professor Price in one of the Associate Editors for the Toxicology Research Journal and has been a reviewer for a number of other scientific journals.

Professor Price was appointed as Deputy Chair of the Committee in June of 2024 and her appointment as a member of the COT expires on 31st March 2027.

Register of interests

An up-to-date record of member interests can be found on the Register of Interests page.