Wellcome Trust looks outside the UK for grants panel members

The Wellcome Trust has appointed six leading biomedical scientists from outside the UK to add to its panel that interviews candidates for investigator grants and senior-level fellowships.

The scientists were announced in a statement on 25 September. In addition, Nishi Chaturvedi, professor of clinical epidemiology at Imperial College London joins the panel as a co-chair alongside Royal Society president Paul Nurse and Deborah Smith, professor of molecular parasitology at the University of York.