YBRI Governance and Reporting

The YBRI management team consists of:

• YBRI Director Professor Jeremy Mottram
• Theme Lead; Immunology, Haematology and Infection Professor Gavin Wright
• Theme Lead; Molecular and Cellular Medicine Professor Jenny Southgate
• Theme Lead; Neuroscience Professor Tony Morland
• Research Development Manager for Biosciences Dr Fiona Frame
• YBRI Research Facilitator Rebecca Chalkley

The two cross-theme advisors and the clinical interface lead attend management meetings three times a year. The Director of the YBRI Doctoral Training Programme attends on an ad-hoc basis.

• Cross-cutting Theme Advisor - Biomedical Technologies  Professor Steve Johnson
• Cross-cutting Theme Advisor - Chemical and Structural Biology  Dr Lianne Willems
• Clinical Interface Lead  Dr Dimitris Lagos
• YBRI Doctoral Training Programme, Director  Professor Paul Genever

YBRI activities are overseen and governed by the YBRI Steering Committee.

The Steering Committee meets two-three times per year and comprises key academics and professional services staff from within the University of York who provide YBRI with strategic oversight and advice.  Primarily, but not limited to, research development and YBRI’s position and operations within the University of York.

Committee seats:  2022/2023

Associate Dean, Faculty of Science	Professor Sarah Thompson
Director, York Biomedical Research Institute	Professor Jeremy Mottram
YBRI Theme Leads	Professor Tony Morland, Psychology Professor Ian Hitchcock, Biology Professor Jennifer Southgate, Biology
Research Champion for Health and Wellbeing	Professor Joy Adamson, Health Sciences
The Dean of HYMS	Professor Una MacLeod
The Head of Biology	Professor James Moir
The Head of Chemistry	Professor Caroline Dessent
The Head of Psychology	Professor Tim Andrews
The Head of the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Professor Kieran Gibson
Associate Director, Research and Innovation Development	Dr Rachel Curwen, Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange
Junior YBRI Members	Dr Scott Cairney, Psychology Dr Samadhan Patil, School or Physics, Engineering and Technology
Secretary	Ms Rebecca Chalkley, YBRI Research Facilitator

The External Advisory Board comprises professionals with expertise in biomedical science to provide YBRI with strategic advice and strengthening links between YBRI researchers and external organisations. The Board meets once a year.

Departmental Research Committees

YBRI provides a quarterly report to the Departments with YBRI members for discussion at their meetings.

Facilitation team

The facilitation team are here to facilitate the smooth running of the Institute and develop biomedicine at York.

Rebecca Chalkley, YBRI Research Facilitator 

Rebecca’s background is in translational research focused on cancer; specifically head and neck, lung, breast, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and developing molecular tools.

She provides strategic planning and oversight of York Biomedical Research Institute activities.

Rebecca is highly involved in network development and collaborating with clinical partners and civic engagement.

She is responsible for all aspects of large, complex proposal development, from generating initial interest and ideas around funding calls, bringing together research collaborators, pulling together multi-partner budgets, providing content for bids, proofreading and managing proposal drafting and submission processes (internal and external).

Libby Hagston, YBRI Coordinator

Libby is a psychology graduate and has a keen interest in cognitive neuroscience.

She provides planning and support for projects within YBRI; mainly the delivery of YBRI's programme of meetings, seminars and events. Libby also implements YBRI's communications strategy and runs our social media campaigns.

Fiona Frame, Research Development Manager, Bioscience

Fiona's background is in prostate cancer with an interest in therapy resistance, using primary prostate epithelial cells from patient samples as a clinically relevant model.

As Research Development Manager in Biosciences she works with YBRI researchers to increase their relationships and collaborations with industry.