Reports

Report of the General Board on the establishment of an MRC Research Professorship of Epidemiology

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, 5850, 2000–01, p. 814), the Board, in accordance with policy and procedure outlined in paragraph 6 of the Notice on appointments to unestablished posts at the level of Professor or Reader (Reporter, 5842, 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 when an individual had been successful in a prestigious external competition, for example, Royal Society and MRC Research Professorships. In a further Report, dated 22 January 2003 (Reporter, 5911, 2002–03, p. 519), the Board proposed the establishment of Professorships for the holders of Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowships.

2. The Board have now considered a proposal for the establishment of an MRC Research Professorship of Epidemiology for Professor Nicholas Wareham, currently Director of the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge and Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Clinical Medicine. The Professorship is intended to be held in association with the Directorship of the Medical Research Council’s Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge, which is in the process of being transferred to the University as an MRC University Unit. The award is not, however, contingent upon that transfer. The award from the MRC supporting the Professorship is for an initial period of ten years from the date of appointment, and is expected to be renewed for so long as Professor Wareham remains Director of the Unit. The Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine have agreed to meet the costs of the Professorship from the expiry of the MRC award, for the remainder of Professor Wareham’s tenure should that be necessary.

3. The General Board recommend:

I. That an MRC Research Professorship of Epidemiology be established from 1 May 2013 for the tenure of Professor Nicholas Wareham, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Faculty of Clinical Medicine.

6 February 2013	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	M. J. Daunton	Robert Kennicutt
	Philip Allmendinger	Simon Franklin	Patrick Maxwell
	N. Bampos	C. A. Gilligan	Rachael Padman
	H. A. Chase	David Good	John Rallison
	Sarah Coakley	Sadie Jarrett