Our board
As a not-for-profit organisation and educational charity we are governed by a board of trustees.
Steve Marsland
Chair
Director for Homelessness Outcomes Contracts at Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
Dr Krista Dobo
Director/Trustee
Research Fellow at Pfizer
Duncan Ratcliffe
Director/Trustee
Head of IT and Premises at Skipton Building Society
Dr Camilla Alexander-White
Immediate Past Chair
Independent Scientific Advisor on Chemicals Policy; Chemicals Safety Consultant
Dr Richard Brennan
Director/Trustee
Scientific Advisor, Preclinical Safety (Sanofi)
Dr Steve Gutsell
Deputy Chair
Computational Science and Team Leader, Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre (Unilever)
Dr Jim Harvey
Director/Trustee
Director, Target and Systems Safety, Non Clinical Safety, IVIVT (GSK)
Tanja Lichtensteiger
Director/Trustee
Director, Product Engineering at BBC
Marcus Mills
Director/Trustee
Commercial Chief Financial Officer
David Rawson
Director/Trustee
Director, Product Offerings (Factor)
Stuart Clarke MBE
Director/Trustee
Co-founder and Festival Director at the Leeds Digital Festival
Interested in joining our board?
Our scientific advisory board
To support our purpose of developing expert computer systems that support informed decision making on chemical safety, we are also governed by a scientific advisory board.
Dr Bao Nguyen
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Deputy Director of the Institute of Process Research and Development (iPRD)
Dr Barry Jones
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Chief Scientist Global DMPK (Pharmaron)
Dr Chris Barber
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Lhasa Limited Chief Executive Officer
Dr Darren Green
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Head of Cheminformatics & Data Science, Senior Fellow (GSK)
Dr Matthew Martin
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Senior Director, Computational Safety Science Lead, Drug Safety Research and Development (Pfizer)
Dr Philip Judson
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Founder and director of the Chemical Bioactivity Information Centre
Dr Joel Bercu
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Executive Director, Nonclinical Safety and Pathobiology (Gilead Sciences)
Dr Andrew Teasdale
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Senior Principal Scientist Impurity management and External Advocacy (AstraZeneca)
Dr Adrian Fowkes
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Director of Science (Lhasa Limited)
Interested in joining our Scientific Advisory board?
Our charitable statement
Our Board of Directors hold in high regard the principle of public benefit and require that we pursue strategies that demonstrate this. Our Board of Directors, at their quarterly meetings, review ongoing charitable activities to ensure consistency with our charitable objects. Our Board of Directors is aware of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and has regard to it in determining our charitable aims and the way we carry out our activities.
We are committed to the development and use of computer-aided reasoning and information systems for the advancement of chemistry and the life sciences. By performing research on chemical, toxicology and metabolism data, our scientists are able to provide our members with software systems that allow them to make decisions about the safety of chemicals, thereby providing public benefit through:
1. Reducing the need for animal testing
2. Improving the lengthy and costly process of developing new drugs
3. Safeguarding human health from the adverse effects of chemicals
Our charitable aims
Our charitable aims include the sponsorship of activities that advance scientific knowledge and understanding through the use of computer-aided reasoning in chemistry and the life sciences. We promote and encourage the use of our software for academic teaching and research by offering membership on significantly preferential terms. In addition, we actively support research through sponsorship of:
Computational chemistry events
Scientific symposia and academic prizes
Research projects and scientific training to Ph.D. level
We are committed to providing financial support for others to carry out their own research and to discuss their findings to further advance and refine the science. Specifically, we provide support for research within academic institutions and the outcomes of this research and that of our own scientists, are disseminated through publications, talks and poster presentations at relevant scientific events all around the world.
Sponsorship and awards
In accordance with our charitable objects, we are proud to award grants to institutions to sponsor PhD students. For more information about our sponsorship expenditure and sponsorship activities in accordance with our charitable objects please get in touch with marketing@lhasalimited.org.
