History
Professor David Harrison is Professor and Head of Division of Pathology
in the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Pathologist in
Lothian University Hospitals Division and Director of the Breakthrough
Research Unit, Edinburgh. He was Director of the Edinburgh Cancer
Research Centre before its inclusion into the Institute of Genetics and
Molecular Medicine, and he is now a Board member of the latter. He is a
Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of
Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
His
research interests are in cell injury and death, and their genetic
regulation, in health and disease. In addition he is interested in
computational systems biology, and how this nascent field can be applied
meaningfully to breast cancer research.
His other main area of
interest is education, in particular using distance learning and blended
learning for postgraduate training. He holds Adjunct Professorships in
University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Canberra.
He
is a member of the Cancer Research UK Strategic Advisory Group and sits
on several grant giving bodies. In his spare time he chairs a charity
that owns and runs a hospital and nursing school in the Middle East.
