Jackie Hunter

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Jackie Hunter
Born
Ann Jacqueline Hunter [1]

1956 (age 66–67) [2]
Alma mater Bedford College, London
Known for
AI and Drug discovery
Awards
FRSB (2016)
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Chemical communication, aggression and sexual behaviour in the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus griseimembra)  (1981)
Website benevolent.ai/blog/

Ann Jacqueline Hunter CBE FMedSci FBPharmacolS FRSB is a British scientist who is a board director of BenevolentAI. [6] Hunter is also a visiting professor at St George's Hospital Medical School and Imperial College. She is Chair of the Trustees of the Sainsbury Laboratories at Norwich, Chair of the Board of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and Chair of the Board of Brainomix. She was previously CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. [4] [7]

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Education

Jackie Hunter was educated at Selwyn School, Matson, Gloucestershire and at the King's School, Gloucester. [8] She achieved a BSc in Physiology and Psychology at Bedford College, University of London in 1977 and whilst there represented the college on the TV programme University Challenge in 1976. She was awarded her PhD [9] for work carried out at London Zoo entitled 'Olfaction, aggression and sexual behaviour of owl monkeys (genus Aotus) [9] in 1981.

Career

Hunter undertook a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral research fellowship at St George's Hospital Medical School before joining the pharmaceutical industry. She worked at Glaxo Laboratories first in Greenford and then Ware on novel therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease. In 1986 she moved to Astra and then subsequently in 1989 to SmithKline and French just prior to the merger that created SmithKlineBeecham (SB). At SB she held a number of management positions and was responsible for delivering a number of candidate molecules to development as well as large scale external collaborations such as the ENU mutagenesis project with the MRC at Harwell. After the merger between SB and GlaxoWellcome to create GSK, she became head of the Neurology and GI Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery and Site Head at the GSK site in Harlow, Essex.

In 2008, Hunter developed GSK's external innovation strategy and was responsible for developing the concept of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and obtaining funding from government and other bodies.[ citation needed ] In 2010, she left GSK to establish OI Pharma Partners. [3] [4] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] which was established as a consultancy for the promotion of open innovation in the life sciences, working with governments, academic organisations and companies to formulate open innovation strategies and best practice.

In 2013, Hunter was appointed CEO of the BBSRC. [7] [16] [17] She has also been a non-executive director of Proximagen group plc and Chiltern International Group (2016–present). She was a member of the Governing Councils of Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of London and of Hertfordshire University. In 2016 she left the BBSRC and joined Stratified Medical which became BenevolentAI, establishing the drug discovery arm of the organisation. She retired from BenevolentAI in 2020 but remains as a Board director. In 2019 she was appointed Chair of the Trustees of the Sainsbury Laboratories at Norwich. In 2020 she was also appointed as Chair of the Board of the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst and Chair of the Board of Brainomix, an AI enabled imaging company.

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References

  1. ↑ Jackie Hunter's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 "Royal Holloway, University of London Dr Jackie Hunter CBE (1956–)". Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 "OI Pharma Partners – Open Innovation in Healthcare". Archived from the original on 31 October 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Chief Executive's biography: Professor Jackie Hunter". Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
  5. 1 2 "New Fellows | The Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Benevolent AI's Dr Jackie Hunter discusses defining innovation - Babraham Research Campus". www.babraham.com. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  7. 1 2 Jackie Hunter to be next BBSRC chief, Times Higher Education, 4 June 2013
  8. ↑ "Jackie Hunter PhD CBE FBPharmacolS LinkedIn profile". Archived from the original on 8 November 2013.
  9. 1 2 Hunter, A. Jackie (1981). Chemical communication, aggression and sexual behaviour in the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus griseimembra) (PhD thesis). Bedford College, London.
  10. ↑ 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. Bibcode:2011RSPTA.369.1817H. doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0377. PMID   21464073.
  11. ↑ 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. Bibcode:1999PNAS...9610911H. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.19.10911 . PMC   17982 . PMID   10485925.
  12. ↑ 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. 8 (10): 711–713. doi:10.1007/s003359900551. PMID   9321461. S2CID   29864514.
  13. ↑ 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. S2CID   7052019.
  14. ↑ 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. S2CID   9028853.
  15. ↑ 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. S2CID   7052019.
  16. ↑ "Bioscience innovation leader appointed as next BBSRC Chief Executive". Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
  17. ↑ "Press release: New chief executive for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council". Archived from the original on 14 May 2014.
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