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 Brian Heap is Honorary Fellow at St
Edmund’s College, Cambridge and a Research
Associate of its Capability
and Sustainability
Centre, Cambridge, Editor of the Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society
(Biological
Sciences), Special Professor at the University
of Nottingham, Principle Scientific Adviser of ZyGEM Co Ltd New Zealand, and a trustee of
various organizations.
He holds doctorates from the Universities of
Nottingham and Cambridge,
and has published in endocrine physiology,
reproductive biology, biotechnology, sustainable
consumption and production, science advice and
science policy issues. Formerly, he was Master
of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge,
Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the
Royal Society, Director of Research at the
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council, President of the Institute of Biology,
UK Representative on the European Science
Foundation, UK Representative on the NATO
Science Committee, Chair of the Cambridge
Genetics Knowledge Park, and a member of the
Advisory Board of the Templeton Foundation and a
judge of the Templeton Prize.
Sir Brian served on the Nuffield Council on
Bioethics, the Department of Health’s Expert
Group on Cloning, has worked on developing
country issues particularly in China with the
World Health Organisation, and was scientific
consultant for Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Johnson
and Johnson, and
Ligand Pharmaceuticals in the USA.
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