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LISTER NEWS Research Prizes 2009 Application forms for the 2009
Prizes will be available from the middle of July 2008. THE 2009
PRIZES WILL BE £200,000 EACH AND THE MONEY MAY BE EXPENDED OVER A
FIVE-YEAR PERIOD. Scientific Advisory Committee Professor Robin Irvine, a member of our Scientific Advisory Committee, has replaced Professor Richard Perham as Chair of the Committee when Professor Perham retired, through rotation, in September 2006. The Lister Institute is pleased to welcome Professor Mary Collins to our Scientific Advisory Committee. Professor Mary Collins Mary Collins has worked on retrovirus engineering for the last 20 years. Together with Robin Weiss and Yasuhiro Takeuchi, the Collins group demonstrated that retroviral vector sensitivity to human complement is controlled by glycosylation of the viral envelope, engineered viral envelopes containing ligand or antibody domains to target viral infection and made high titre vector producer cells. Recently they have investigated the use of lentiviral vectors as vaccines. Collins moved to UCL as Professor of Immunology in 1997 and now heads the Division of Infection and Immunity at UCL. She is Director of the MRC/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, a member of the Department of Health Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (GTAC) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999.
Governing Body
The Lister Institute is pleased to welcome Mr Andrew Hutton to our Governing Body. John was co-opted onto the Governing Body in July 2007 and was elected at the AGM in September:
Mr Andrew Hutton Andrew Hutton is an independent investment advisor and business consultant, specializing in investment strategy, manager selection, portfolio design and business development. Prior to forming his own practice in 2007, Andrew Hutton held a variety of positions in the investment management industry. A graduate in Law from Cambridge University, Andrew Hutton joined J.P. Morgan Investment Management in 1979 and worked in equity research, portfolio management and business development in New York, London and Singapore. From 1990 to 1993 he was Chief Executive of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Australia Ltd and from 1994 to 1997 was Head of International Mutual Funds at J.P. Morgan. In 1997 he joined Coutts & Co in London as Head of Investment Management and a member of the Coutts Group’s Executive Committee. From 2004 to 2007 he was joint Chief Executive of RBS Asset Management Ltd. During his career, Andrew Hutton has worked with private clients, institutional investors and charitable foundations. He is a non-executive Director of the Strategic Investment Board, which advises the Ministry of Justice on investment matters.
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