Basic Bioscience Underpinning Health Strategy Advisory Panel

BBSRC identified Basic Bioscience Underpinning Health (BBUH) in its Strategic Plan as one of its three high level priority areas for the period 2010-15. The provision of strategic advice in this general area was previously covered by the Healthy Organism Strategy Panel (HOP) as part of its wider remit. With the revised focus of the BBUH high level priority, the establishment of a new Strategy Advisory Panel to further develop and refine BBSRC's strategy in the area of BBUH in the coming years was required.

Terms of reference

Under the BBSRC strategic priority in basic bioscience underpinning health (with a particular focus on lifelong health and wellbeing), the Advisory Panel will:

Develop and maintain an overview of relevant research, training and knowledge exchange across the BBSRC community in the period 2011-2015
Maintain an overview of the research, training and knowledge exchange activities supported by other sponsors, both nationally and internationally
Advise BBSRC on the strategic direction of its research, training and knowledge exchange portfolio, in order to maintain the competitiveness of the UK in line with the Strategic Plan

Additionally the BBUH SAP will:

Provide advice on BBSRC's strategy for 'one biology, one health', and (with the Food Security Strategy Advisory Panel) advise on the animal health and welfare aspects of its food security priority
Maintain an overview of BBSRC policy on the use of animals in research

Membership

Professor Maggie Dallman (Chair) - Imperial College, London
Professor Richard Faragher - University of Brighton
Professor Russell Foster - University of Oxford
Professor Jane Hurst - University of Liverpool
Professor John Mathers - Newcastle University
Professor Peter Morgan - Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
Professor Eleanor Riley - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Roberto Solari - GSK

Meeting dates and minutes

2013

5 February

7 May

2012

16 March

5 October

Contact

Stephanie Williams-Blackwell
Stephanie.Blackwell@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 442196
fax: 01793 413234