Research Grant Review Committee

The Research Grant Review Committee (RGRC) will be appointed to manage the peer review process to ensure fairness, transparency and to ensure recommendations for funding achieve the Trust's SCORE objectives.

The Committee will be tasked with judging how well funding applications meet the Trust's criteria, prior to making recommendations to the Executive.

Current members of Research Grant Review Committee

Chair: Associate Professor Carlos Miguel Farinha, Associate Professor (with Habilitation) of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Vice Chair: Dr Malcolm Brodlie, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician; NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme Lead, Newcastle University

Committee Members:

• Dr Lucy Allen, Director of Research and Healthcare Data, Cystic Fibrosis Trust Representative
• Professor Anna Cereseto, Professor and Head of Laboratory for Advanced Genome Editing Technologies Department, CIBIO, University of Trento 
• Louise Cooper, CF Community Representative
• Dr Gwyneth Davies, Clinical Associate Professor/UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Jo Fothergill, Professor in Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool
• Debbie McNeile, CF Community Representative
• Lizzy Molyneux, CF Community Representative
• Dr Dilip Nazareth, Consultant Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
• Dr Gemma Stanford, HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellow Specialist Physiotherapist in Adult Cystic Fibrosis, Royal Brompton Hospital
• Professor Paola Vergani, Professor of Epithelial Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London
• Dr Fiona Whelan, Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Manchester

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