Professor David Westhead
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- Member: Strategic Skills fellowships Panel - Biomedical Informatics
Main form of employment:
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds
Research group/department web page/s:
Personal remuneration:
- University of Leeds
- External Examinerships at Birkbeck College and University of Oxford
- Consultancy work for Wellcome Trust and Department of Health
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- None
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- Laslo P and Westhead DR. Understanding how graded levels of the transcription factor PU.1 differentially regulate the myeloid network: Leukaemia vs differentiation. Leukaemia and Lymphoma research. £237, 930. Sept 2012-August 2015.
- Bonifer C and Westhead DR. The role of the transcription factor Sp1 in embryonic macrophage development. MRC ref. G0901579:93427. £513k. July 2010 – 2013.
- Bonifer C, Gottgens B, Lacaud G, Kouskoff V, Westhead DR. Establishment of the haemopoietic transcriptional programme: from systems approaches to molecular mechanisms. BBSRC: BB/I001220/1 April 2011-2016 (approx £4.5M).
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
- Profs C. Bonifer and P. Cockerill, University of Birmingham
- Prof. B. Gottgens, University of Cambridge
- Drs. G Lacaud and V. Kouskoff, Paterson Institute, University of Manchester
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- None
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- None
