General

Dr David Lovell

Reader in Medical Statistics at St George’s Medical School, University of London

Last updated: 16 October 2024

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Bio

David Lovell is Emeritus Reader in Medical Statistics at City St George’s, University of London. 

He was Chair of the UK Government’s Advisory Committees on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM).  He was a member of the Committee on Carcinogenicity (COC) both memberships expired in 2021.

Dr. Lovell's appointment as a member of the COT expires on 31st March 2025.

Personal Interest

Category of Interest

Organisation / Body and Nature of Interest (period)

Retired

Emiritus Reader in Medical Statistics, City St George’s, University of London

Shareholder

National Grid 

AstraZeneca (spouse shareholder)

National Grid plc (spouse shareholder)

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) - Expired end 2022.

MRC EMINENT Scientific Review Board.

UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment & Committee on Carcinogenicity (COM & COC  Expired 2021).

SAG-CS, Office for Product Safety and Standards, Department for Business and Trade.  

ILSI Europe Expert Group on Uncertainty in Hazard Assessment.

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.
Pension

I receive a pension from the Pfizer Pension Scheme related to when I worked for Pfizer from approx 1999-2004.

I receive a USS pension from my past employment with the MRC and two Universities.