The Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit is a branch of the UK Medical Research Council, based in Cambridge, England. The CBSU is a centre for cognitive neuroscience, with a mission to improve human health by understanding and enhancing cognition and behaviour in health, disease and disorder. It is one of the largest and most long-lasting contributors to the development of psychological theory and practice.
Martin Bobrow is a British geneticist, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Roderick John Flower, also known as Rod, is a British pharmacologist, and professor at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Flower is a member of the board of directors of Antibe Therapeutics and on the scientific advisory board of Morria.
Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson is a British geneticist.
The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1968–1999) was a London centre for the study and teaching of medical history. It consisted of the Wellcome Library and an Academic Unit. The former was and is a world-class library collection owned and managed by the Wellcome Trust and staffed by librarians including academic librarians who held honorary lectureships at University College London. The Academic Unit was a group of university staff appointed at University College London that conducted a programme of university teaching, thesis supervision, seminars, conferences and publications.
The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group (HoMBRG) is an academic organisation specialising in recording and publishing the oral history of twentieth and twenty-first century biomedicine. It was established in 1990 as the Wellcome Trust's History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, and reconstituted in October 2010 as part of the School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
Professor Christopher John Dickinson DM, FRCP, ARCO (1927-2015), known as John, was a British physician and clinical researcher.
Peter Orchard Williams was a British physician, who served as Director of the Wellcome Trust, and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Peter MacNaughton Dunn was an English paediatrician. Dunn was most notable for introducing into the UK the Gregory box in 1971, that provides Continuous positive airway pressure in the treatment of infant respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn and conducting research into Hip dysplasia and fetal adaptation to extrauterine life. Dunn was also notable for being known for founding the charity association British Association of Perinatal Medicine.
Thomas Wilson Meade was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.
Professor Richard Lawrance Carter CBE, FRCP, FRCPath is a British histopathologist.
Peter Farmer FRSC, CChem is a British toxicologist.
Professor Robert Lewis Maynard CBE, FRCP, FRCPath, FFOM is a British toxicologist.
Professor Peter Damian Richardson FCGI, FRS was a British biomedical engineer and academic.
James Scott is a British cardiologist.
Elspeth Bruce Smith FRSE, née Dunkerley, was a British academic and biochemist.
Dr Elisabet Helsing DrMedSci was a Norwegian nutritional physiologist.
Ann Prentice, is a British nutritionist.
Dame Barbara Monroe, is a British social worker and hospital chief executive.
Tom Blackburn FBPharmacolS, FRSB is a British industrial pharmacologist.
