Professor Adrian Bird CBE, FRS, FRSE

Adrian Bird was appointed Governor in October 2000 and became Deputy Chairman in April 2007.

He has held the Buchanan Chair of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh since 1990, and is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University. His research interests are the structure and function of the mammalian genome and in particular the role of DNA methylation.

Professor Bird is a member of the editorial board of the journal 'Molecular Cell'. Awards include the 1999 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine and the 2008 Charles Léopold Mayer Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. He is a Trustee of the Kirkhouse Trust and of the Rett Syndrome Research Trust.

CBE: Commander of the British Empire
FRS: Fellow of the Royal Society
FRSE: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh