Job Description
Trustee Directors of the Quadram Institute Bioscience
The Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) is an international centre undertaking interdisciplinary research at the forefront of food and health. It is a leading member of a unique plant-food-health science cluster in Norwich, UK.
Working directly with clinicians in a new state-of-the-art building (which houses both the Institute and the Gastroenterology unit of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and academics from the University of East Anglia) QIB scientists have expertise across food science, microbiology, the microbiome, biomathematics and clinical research.
The Quadram Institute was established in 2017 and it has blossomed into an internationally recognised research centre at the forefront of food and health research, thanks to the leadership of its first Director, Professor Ian Charles. With the appointment of its new Institute Director and CEO, Professor Daniel Figeys, who will join the Institute in early 2025, this is a remarkable opportunity to further develop the QIB. The Institute receives core research funding from the BBSRC, which fund two major strategic research programmes, running from 2023-2028, and which it uses to leverage research funding from many other sources.
What we are looking for:
A Board of Trustees provides strategic oversight of the Institute, and with the strong interest in food and health, this is an exciting time in the development of QIB. As the tenures of some of its existing Trustee Directors are coming to an end, the Board is looking to make new appointments of exceptional candidates with senior expertise in one or more of the following areas: