Affordable Healthcare Committee

The Affordable Healthcare Committee (AHC) makes funding decisions on Affordable Healthcare proposals.

The AHC considers each application along with a due diligence report that includes the detailed opinions of experts who have been consulted on the proposal.

It consists of independent members who have been selected to provide commercially aware advice across a broad range of life-science product areas and platform technologies.

The Committee meets twice a year.

Members

Dr Joseph Smith
Chief Medical and Science Officer, West Health Institute
Committee role: Chairman

Dr Andrew Wood
Venture Partner, Advent Life Sciences
Committee role: Independent member

Dr Davinder Gill
Chief Executive Officer, MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories
Committee role: Independent member

Professor Alison Noble
Statutory Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science
Committee role: Independent member

Dr Gagandeep Kang
Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore
Committee role: Independent member

Professor Nikhil Tandon
Professor, Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Committee role: Independent member

Dr Kanury Venkata Subba Rao
Group Leader of the Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi
Committee role: Independent member

Dr Jayesh Bellare
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Committee role: Independent member

Dr G Balakrish Nair
Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Department of Biotechnology in Gurgaon
Committee role: Independent member

Dr Mohd. Aslam
Director/Scientist, Department of Biotechnology, India
Committee role: Staff member, Department of Biotechnology, India

Dr Diana Tay
Business Development Manager, Wellcome Trust
Committee role: Staff member , Wellcome Trust