Moira Whyte

Appointed 2020. Professor Moira Whyte is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and the Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She was formerly Director of the MRC/University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research and Head of Edinburgh Medical School. She is a member of MRC Strategy Board and Chair of the MRC Training and Careers Group and is also Chair of Sub-panel 1 (Clinical Medicine) for the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)2021. Her research interests are in basic mechanisms of innate immunity in the context of chronic lung diseases.