Dr Jackie Parkin
Visiting Fellow, Big Innovation Centre
Jackie is a medical doctor, trained in infectious disease at St Mary's and the Hammersmith Hospitals and appointed as Consultant Physician at Barts, the London and Homerton Hospitals for ten years.
She is a specialist in HIV medicine, working in this area from the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s, with particular roles in establishing multidisciplinary family services for parents and childen affected by HIV and driving scientific investigation of new therapies for HIV and its complications. She has combined clinical work with a strong academic interest, achieving a PhD in the field of immunology as a Wellcome Research Fellow and being a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and leading basic scientific research, publishing more than 50 scientific papers and book chapters.
She has been deeply involved in training, through teaching and examining the undergraduate medical students within the University of London and as Chair of the London Specialist Training Committee for doctors in training.
In 2002 she joined GlaxoSmithKline, where she is currently Vice President in Research and Development. Here she has pursued development of more effective therapies for diseases of the developing world, infectious diseases and disorders of the immune system such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and juvenile diabetes, often in partnership with academic institutes, non-governmental organisations and small biotech enterprises.
She therefore brings experience and expertise from both the public and industry settings in the drivers and challenges in effective translation of basic science and a business perspective on how the UK environment could evolve to realise its potential as a global innovation hub.
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