The GENERAL BOARD beg leave to report to the University as follows:
1. In their Report on certain fixed-term Professorships and Readerships and future arrangements for awarding the title of Honorary Professor or Reader (Reporter, 2000-01, p. 814), the Board, in accordance with policy and procedure outlined in paragraph 6 of their Notice on appointments to unestablished posts at the level of Professor and Reader (Reporter, 2000-01, p. 552), proposed, inter alia, the establishment of a number of fixed-term Professorships and Readerships, in place of unestablished Research Professorships and Readerships. The Board, in their Notice, also stated their intention to recommend the establishment of Professorships on future occasions for individuals who are successful in a prestigious external competition, for example, Royal Society and Medical Research Council Research Professorships. In a further Report, dated 22 January 2003 (Reporter, 2002-03, p. 519), the Board proposed the establishment of personal Professorships for six holders of Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowships in the University.
2. The Board have considered proposals from the School of Clinical Medicine for the establishment of single-tenure Professorships for the following, who have been awarded Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowships:
| (a) | Professor Gillian Griffiths, in the Department of Medicine; and |
| (b) | Professor Peter St George-Hyslop, in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. |
3. The Board now propose the establishment of single-tenure Professorships for the individuals named in recognition of their academic distinction. The cost of the Professorships will be met from the funds awarded by the Wellcome Trust for seven years in the first instance, after which, and subject to renewal of Wellcome Trust funding which will meet 50% of the cost for renewable periods of five years, the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine have agreed to make matching funds available from the School's resources and to underwrite the cost in the event of termination of funding from the Wellcome Trust.
4. The General Board recommend:
I. That a single-tenure Professorship of Immunology and Cell Biology be established for Professor Gillian Griffiths from 1 August 2007, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Department of Medicine.
II. That a single-tenure Professorship of Experimental Neuroscience be established for Professor Peter St George-Hyslop from 1 September 2007, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
| 11 July 2007 | ALISON RICHARD, Vice-Chancellor | PHILIP FORD | MELVEENA MCKENDRICK |
| JOHN BELL | RICHARD HUNTER | PATRICK SISSONS | |
| TOM BLUNDELL | D. W. B. MACDONALD | I. H. WHITE |