GM Science Review Panel - Members' Interests
Professor Bertus Rima
Professor Bertus Rima, MSc, PhD, FIBIOL, MRIA. Medical Biology Centre, The Queen's University of Belfast
Professor Rima was appointed Professor of Molecular Biology at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1993. His main research interest is to apply molecular biological and genetic techniques to virology and infectious diseases in general. He has an interest in human viruses (mumps and measles) as well as animal viruses such as rinderpest, canine distemper and seal and dolphin viruses of the same group. His work now centres primarily on how viruses are attenuated for vaccines and what barriers exist that prevent human viruses from infecting animals and vice versa.
He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification and the Veterinary Products Committee of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.
Members have declared personal and non-personal interests, that are current or within the last 5 years as follows: | |||
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Queen's University of Belfast |
Professor of Molecular Biology |
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Health and Safety Executive |
Member Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification |
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Veterinary Medicines Directorate |
Member Veterinary Products Committee |
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Lovells |
Advisor in relation to litigation re MMR vaccine against Merck & Co Inc; SmithKline Beecham plc and Aventis Pasteur MSD |
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