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Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical science

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In anticipation of the next general election, the Academy of Medical Sciences has written to the leaders of the major political parties to outline its vision for UK medical science. The vision highlights how groundbreaking advances in medical science offer the next UK Government an unprecedented opportunity to reinvigorate the economy, to enhance the productivity of the NHS and to make public services more cost-effective.

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Sir David Cooksey GBE FMedSci (Chair)
Chairman
UK Financial Investments

Professor Fran Balkwill OBE FMedSci
Professor of Cancer Biology and Centre Lead for Translational Oncology, Centre for Cancer and Inflammation
Barts and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry

Professor Sir John Bell FRS HonFREng PMedSci
Regius Professor of Medicine
University of Oxford

Professor Carol Dezateux CBE FMedSci
Director of the MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health
Institute for Child Health
University College London

Professor Sir Andrew Haines FMedSci
Director
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Professor Ron Laskey FRS FMedSci
Honorary Co-Director of the MRC Cancer Cell Unit
University of Cambridge

Dr Melanie Lee FMedSci
Director
Think10

Professor Sir Alex Markham FMedSci
Professor of Medicine
University of Leeds

Professor Patrick Maxwell FMedSci
Head of the Division of Medicine
University College London

Professor Terence Rabbitts FRS FMedSci
Director of the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Leeds

Professor Jonathan Seckl FRSE FMedSci
Director of Research at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
University of Edinburgh

Professor Stephen Smith FMedSci
Chief Executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Principal of the Faculty of Medicine
Imperial College London

Professor Patrick Vallance FMedSci
Senior Vice-President for Drug Discovery
GlaxoSmithKline

Observers

Sue Middleton
Director of Corporate Government Affairs
GlaxoSmithKline

Dr Helen Munn
Executive Director
Academy of Medical Sciences

Secretariat

Laurie Smith
Medical Science Policy Manager
Academy of Medical Sciences

Dr Robert Frost
FORUM Manager
Academy of Medical Sciences

Dr Rachel Quinn
Director of Policy
Academy of Medical Sciences

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