{"id":87418,"date":"2017-12-18T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a11e3b740de3bb1933e31d91bc5c4423"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:30:11","slug":"news-story-preferred-candidate-chosen-for-the-role-of-executive-chair-of-the-medical-research-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87418","title":{"rendered":"News story: Preferred candidate chosen for the role of Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Professor Watt is currently Director of the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King\u2019s College London. Here she leads a team of 80 academic researchers and is internationally recognised in her field with particular expertise in the stem cells of healthy and diseased skin.<\/p>\n<p>The current MRC Chief Executive, Sir John Savill FRS, steps down at the end of March 2018 before UKRI is launched.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Watt said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am deeply honoured to be selected as the Government\u2019s preferred candidate to lead the MRC at this time of extraordinary opportunity for the UK\u2019s biomedical researchers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sir Mark Walport, UKRI CEO Designate, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Professor Fiona Watt is a distinguished biomedical scientist who will be an outstanding leader of the Medical Research Council.  I am delighted she has been selected as the Government\u2019s preferred candidate for the role of MRC Executive Chair.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post of MRC Executive Chair is potentially subject to a pre-appointment hearing by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. The Committee will consider this in due course. If a pre-appointment hearing is requested then arrangements will be made for this in the New Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Fiona Watt FRS has been selected as the Government\u2019s preferred candidate to be the Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC) when it becomes a constituent part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}