Management

Professor Tim Spector is the Scientific Director of the DTR and management of the department is the responsibility of the TwinsUK Resource Executive Committee (TREC). The committee currently comprises Tim Spector (Director); Deborah Hart (Executive Director/Chair); Frances Williams (Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant); Kourosh Ahmadi (Senior Lecturer); Chris Hammond (Frost Professor of Ophthalmology), Gail Clement (Research Nurse Manager), Gabriela Surdulescu (Laboratory Manager) and Massimo Mangino (Bioinformatician).

The TwinsUK Resource Executive Committee usually meets weekly to consider submission of proposals and papers. Decisions on the most complex proposals will be overseen by the independent external Access Committee for CLS Cohorts, which oversees our data and/or material requests for projects. For more information on the CLS Access Committee please click here.