Scientific Advisors

We rely on advice from our scientific advisors who assist us with internal triage of new applications and assessment of completed projects.

Professor Jim Owen

Dr Keith Bragman

MD (Lond), FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FRCPath, FFPM

Past President of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK)

Keith is a consultant expert for Rosetrees Trust and the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He is a specialist in pharmaceutical medicine. He was originally a clinical haematologist and haematopathologist in the UK and USA. He is a Past President of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (2012-15).

Dr. Petra Disterer

Dr. Pat Goodwin

Pat has over 20 years’ experience of developing and managing Wellcome Trust funding programmes, mainly in the areas of infection and immunity, populations and public health, and molecular genetics. She represented the Wellcome Trust in partnerships with other funders, including the Malaria Genome Project, the Gates Grand Challenges, Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa), and the Public Health Centres of Excellence Initiative. She was also a Director of UK Biobank and has served on the Councils of the Royal Society of Biology and the Microbiology Society.

Dr Ioannis Papaioannou

Dr. Vassileva

Dr. Vassileva has extensive experience in research and innovation across the academic, regulatory, industry and publishing sectors. She obtained her HonBSc in Human Biology, MSc in Cancer Genetics and Pathobiology, and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Toronto.

She has worked at Imperial College London, University College London, Queen Mary University London, and University of Toronto. She has also worked at the European Medicines Agency and at Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. Recently, she joined Blue Earth Diagnostics, where she leads the Translational Science Programme.

Dr. Vassileva is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research, and peer-reviewers for numerous scientific journals and research funding agencies, providing scientific advice to scientists and clinicians worldwide.