Professor Moira Whyte OBE

Biography

Moira Whyte is the Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the MRC/University of Edinburgh Centre for Inflammation Research (www.cir.ed.ac.uk/investigator/Professor-Moira-Whyte). Moira has a longstanding interest in developing clinical academic careers and is Chair of the MRC Clinical Training and Careers Panel. She was previously a member of the MRC Populations Systems & Medicines Board (PSMB). Her research interests are in chronic respiratory diseases and mechanisms of inflammation. She is Director of the Edinburgh Clinical Academic Training (ECAT) Programme and was recently appointed Head of Edinburgh Medical School.