Nancy J Rothwell

Professor Rothwell a trustee of Cancer Research UK and is Vice President for Research at The University of Manchester and holds an MRC Research Chair in Physiology at the Faculty of Life Sciences and a non-executive director of AstraZeneca. She chairs a variety of committees, including the Research Defence Society and the Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Strategy Committee, is a Council member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and has a strong interest in discussing science with non-scientists and children.