OIBC - Key Persons

Malgosia Brooks is a Finance Manager/Director who has delivered complex IT projects to support intense change. She completed Roffey Park Institute: Management and Leadership Programme and worked over the years as an accountant, finance and IT manager and currently as financial controller for Wala UK Ltd - UK distributor of Dr Hauschka skincare products for Wala Heilmittel GmbH.

Mr George Guise

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Adviser, Formerly Science Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher )

Mr Michael Livingston

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Adviser, International Cholesterol Foundation )

Mr Richard Webber

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TRUSTEE
Oxfordshire County Council Councillor

Mrs Jinny Gender

Mrs Kasia Lewis

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Director

Prof Afsie Sabokbar

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Associate Professor and Botnar Directorof Graduate Studies University of Oxford

Prof Alan Malcolm

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Advisor
Scientific Adviser, Formerly Executive Secretary of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and Editor of Science in Parliament )

Prof Charles A Pasternak

Charles Pasternak is well known for his pioneering work on the surface membrane of animal cells, which is a key factor in the understanding of cancer and many infectious diseases. In 1973 he proposed a mechanism to account for the surface changes that accompany growth and division of cultured cells and in 1984 showed that divalent cations such as Zn2+ protect membranes and cells against attack by certain viruses, toxins, immune molecules, and other agents. Together with C. L. Bashford he showed (in 1984) that the membrane potential of certain leucocytes and cancer cells is maintained independently of K+ diffusion, and they (in 1997) proposed a novel mechanism for the fluctuation of ion current in membrane pores. Charles Pasternak is active in promoting scientific collaboration and interchange; he is a member of the Executive Committee for a UNESCO initiative on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a member of the Education Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), a member of the International Advisory Board for the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok and the Scientific Board of Antenna Technologie, Geneva. In 1979 he founded the Cell Surface Research Fund in order to foster international research links and scientific meetings on various aspects of fundamental and clinical research on the cell surface. In 1993 he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa and Palade medal from the University of Bucharest, in 1995 the honour of Amigo de Venezuela from the Fundacion Venezuela Positiva and in 2002 was elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Charles Pasternak has served on several editorial committees including the Advisory Board of Current Topics in Membranes and Transport, and is the founder-Editor of Bioscience Reports: Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Cell Surface. His published works include Biochemistry of Differentiation (Wiley 1970; translated into Japanese), Introduction to Human Biochemistry (Oxford University Press 1979; translated into half a dozen languages), The Molecules Within Us: Our Body in Health and Disease (Plenum 1998) and Quest: The Essence of Humanity (John Wiley, 2003), as well as some 250 original papers and reviews on the cell surface. Charles Pasternak supports many charitable causes. He founded the Douglas Hems Memorial Fund, of which he was a Trustee for 15 years, in 1979. He is a Patron of the Anglo-Russian Children Appeal.