David Harrison

David Harrison MD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPEd, FRCSEd graduated from Edinburgh sometime last century and trained as a histopathologist. Whilst clinically specialising in liver and kidney, his research interests in cancer are broader, coming under the general banner of systems biology applied to pathology.

He is currently Professor of Pathology in St Andrews, with honorary chairs in Florida and Edinburgh, the last of these where he was Professor Pathology for 12 years and sometime Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. He is also director of development for Laboratory Medicine in NHS Lothian. He chairs the UK Committee on Carcinogenicity.

In his spare time he chairs several charities of various flavours, and is deputy chair of the Office of the Scottish Charity regulator, and director of several small biotech companies.