Jackie Hunter

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Professor Jackie Hunter
Born Ann Jackie Hunter[1]
1956 (age 57–58)[2]
Institutions BBSRC
Proximagen
OI Pharma Partners[2]
GlaxoSmithKline
Zoological Society of London
St George's, University of London
Alma mater Bedford College, London
Thesis Chemical communication, aggression and sexual behaviour in the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus griseimembra) (1981)
Known for Open innovation[3][4]
CEO of the BBSRC
Innovative Medicines Initiative[2]
Notable awards PhD[5]
CBE
FBPharmacolS
Website
blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk
twitter.com/JHunterBBSRC
(Ann) Jackie Hunter PhD[5] CBE is Professor at St George's Hospital Medical School and CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.[4][6][7]

Education

Hunter was educated at Kings School[8] and completed her Bachelor of Science degree and PhD[5] in Psychology at Bedford College, London which is now part of Royal Holloway, University of London. Her PhD thesis was on the psychology of owl monkeys (genus Aotus).[5]

Career

Following her PhD, Hunter undertook a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral research fellowship at St George’s Hospital Medical School before joining the pharmaceutical industry where she worked for 25 years for GSK, Proximagen and OI Pharma Partners.[3][4][9][10][11][12][13][14] She became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the BBSRC in 2013.[6][15][16]

Awards

In 2010 Hunter was awarded the CBE for services to the pharmaceutical industry. She is also a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society.

References

  1. ↑ Jackie Hunter from the Scopus bibliographic database
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Royal Holloway, University of London Dr Jackie Hunter CBE (1956-)". Archived from the original on 2013-11-11. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OI Pharma Partners - Open Innovation in Healthcare". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Chief Executive's biography: Professor Jackie Hunter". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Hunter, A. Jackie (1981). Chemical communication, aggression and sexual behaviour in the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus griseimembra) (PhD thesis). Bedford College, London. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jackie Hunter to be next BBSRC chief, Times Higher Education, 2013-06-04
  7. ↑ Jackie Hunter on Twitter
  8. ↑ "Jackie Hunter PhD CBE FBPharmacolS LinkedIn profile". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. 
  9. ↑ Hunter, J. (2011). "Challenges for pharmaceutical industry: New partnerships for sustainable human health". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369 (1942): 1817–1825. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0377. 
  10. ↑ Hagan, J. J.; Leslie, R. A.; Patel, S.; Evans, M. L.; Wattam, T. A.; Holmes, S.; Benham, C. D.; Taylor, S. G.; Routledge, C.; Hemmati, P.; Munton, R. P.; Ashmeade, T. E.; Shah, A. S.; Hatcher, J. P.; Hatcher, P. D.; Jones, D. N.; Smith, M. I.; Piper, D. C.; Hunter, A. J.; Porter, R. A.; Upton, N. (1999). "Orexin a activates locus coeruleus cell firing and increases arousal in the rat". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96 (19): 10911–10916. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.19.10911. PMC 17982. PMID 10485925. 
  11. ↑ Rogers, D. C.; Fisher, E. M.; Brown, S. D.; Peters, J.; Hunter, A. J.; Martin, J. E. (1997). "Behavioral and functional analysis of mouse phenotype: SHIRPA, a proposed protocol for comprehensive phenotype assessment". Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society 8 (10): 711–713. doi:10.1007/s003359900551. PMID 9321461. 
  12. ↑ Piper, D. C.; Upton, N.; Smith, M. I.; Hunter, A. J. (2000). "The novel brain neuropeptide, orexin-A, modulates the sleep-wake cycle of rats". The European journal of neuroscience 12 (2): 726–730. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00919.x. PMID 10712652. 
  13. ↑ Brown, S. D. M.; Peters, P. M.; Strivens, J.; Rogers, M.; Hagan, D.; Spurr, J.; Gray, N.; Vizor, I. C.; Brooker, L.; Whitehill, D.; Washbourne, E.; Hough, R.; Greenaway, T.; Hewitt, S.; Liu, M.; McCormack, X.; Pickford, S.; Selley, K.; Wells, R.; Tymowska-Lalanne, C.; Roby, Z.; Glenister, P.; Thornton, P.; Thaung, C.; Stevenson, C.; Arkell, J. A.; Mburu, R.; Hardisty, P.; Kiernan, R.; Erven, A. (2000). "A systematic, genome-wide, phenotype-driven mutagenesis programme for gene function studies in the mouse". Nature Genetics 25 (4): 440–443. doi:10.1038/78140. PMID 10932191. 
  14. ↑ Piper, D. C.; Upton, N.; Smith, M. I.; Hunter, A. J. (2000). "The novel brain neuropeptide, orexin-A, modulates the sleep-wake cycle of rats". European Journal of Neuroscience 12 (2): 726–730. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00919.x. PMID 10712652. 
  15. ↑ "Bioscience innovation leader appointed as next BBSRC Chief Executive". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. 
  16. ↑ "Press release: New chief executive for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council". Archived from the original on 2013-11-08. 
Government offices
Preceded by
Douglas Kell		 CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2013–present 		Incumbent


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