As Chief Executive and Associate Dean, Professor Anthony Woodman is responsible with members of the senior executive team of ICRI for devising and developing the strategic direction of the institute. After having collaborated with ICRI for almost two years he joined full-time as CEO on 8th October 2007 having spent over 20 years in research and education in the UK.
He spent over three years at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford as a senior research fellow working in collaboration with Boehringer Mannheim developing molecular biomarker assays for the detection and characterization of malignant and metastatic cells as tools in the early detection of bladder and colon cancer.
Anthony joined Cranfield University, UK in 1997 and in 2004 he became the UK’s first Professor of Translational Medicine. In this role, along with being Director of Education, Anthony was responsible for overseeing the research and taught masters provision within Cranfield Health, and worked in collaboration with industry to develop and evaluate technologies which support Translational Medicine, as well as to the postgraduate education of tomorrows’ professionals in Medical Diagnostics and Translational Medicine. The core research focus of his research was the application of novel technologies to support the development and evaluation of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in the fields of infectious diseases, oncology and toxicology. In the area of Tuberculosis, he received significant funding from WHO to support the evaluation of electronic-nose technology for management of the disease in humans and animals. To date his research has generated over 100 conference proceedings abstracts, 51 full papers in international journals and 2 book chapters.
Recognizing the importance of global collaboration and in particular the emergence of India as a destination for clinical research, he was instrumental in the development of the ICRI collaboration with Cranfield University for the delivery of the MSc in Clinical Research in India. The 18-months he managed the collaboration proved to be a mere for-runner to him joining ICRI in October 2007. |