Our Regional Champions are Fellows who bridge divides and lead vital activities across the UK to connect and strengthen our work across all communities.
Regional Champions are an essential part of making sure that experiences on the ground reach partners and decisionmakers who can make health improvements happen.
What do Regional Champions do?
Regional Champions strengthen connections between Fellows in their area, raise awareness of our work throughout the biomedical community, and make it easier for Fellows across the UK to be actively involved with the Academy.
We support Regional Champions to draw on their own ideas and insights to inspire interest and engagement with our work in their region. They run regional workshops, research festivals, early-career conferences, and many other activities.
For more information about the Regional Champions' work as a whole, contact our Regional Engagement Manager.
Who are our Regional Champions?
East Anglia
Professor Laura Machesky FMedSci
Senior Research Group Leader, University of Cambridge
Midlands
Professor Ian Hall FMedSci
Professor of Molecular Medicine & Director, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham
North East
Professor Clare Bambra FMedSci
Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
North West
Professor Ashley Woodcock FMedSci
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester
Northern Ireland
Professor Stuart Elborn CBE FMedSci
Honorary Professor, Queen's University Belfast
Scotland
Professor Andrew Baker FRSE FMedSci
Gustav Born Chair of Vascular Biology, University of Edinburgh
South East
Professor John Primrose FMedSci
Professor of Surgery, University of Southampton
South West
Professor Athimalaipet Ramanan FMedSci
Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, University of Bristol
Wales
Professor Pamela Taylor CBE FMedSci
Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Cardiff University
Yorkshire and Humberside
Professor Sheena Radford OBE FRS FMedSci
Professor of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
