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Peter Fisk
is a chemist, with fifteen years experience in research
and development in industry, and has worked as a consultant since 1995.
He has a unique blend of experience, having a strong laboratory
science base but with wide knowledge of chemicals regulation.
Employment prior to becoming a consultant:
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Shell Research Limited (1985-1995):
leader of the physical chemistry group, which was
responsible for the production of data and reports
for regulatory submission, according to Good Laboratory
Practice (GLP). Involvement with analytical chemistry
aspects of toxicology and ecotoxicology studies. Also,
programme co-ordinator for studies in ecotoxicology
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CIBA-Geigy Industrial Chemicals (1980-1985): physical
chemistry input into the design and function of corrosion
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As a consultant Peter specialises in issues
relating to environmental and physical chemistry, QSAR,
chemicals regulatory compliance, environmental fate and
behaviour modelling, and environmental risk assessment.
His clients have included industrial companies and consortia,
government agencies, and publishers.
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Andrew Girling
worked for twelve years as an ecotoxicologist with Shell
Research prior to establishing himself as an independent
consultant in 1997. He now provides scientific and technical
services relating to environmental hazard and risk assessment
of chemicals, wastes and effluents.
Dr. Girling obtained his PhD in Estuarine
Ecology from the University of Glasgow following a first
degree in Ecology from the University of Lancaster. He
joined Shell Research in 1985 and held the position of
a senior scientist and team leader in the environmental
fate and effects group. His responsibilities included
managing and conducting regulatory test programmes and
leading a collaborative EU funded programme with five
laboratories to develop semi-field (mescosm) scale test
systems for assessing effects in aquatic communities.
Dr. Girling has published extensively in his field. He
has served on ISO and BSI test methods working groups
and chaired an OECD working group that developed guidance
for testing substances with 'difficult' physical
and chemical properties.
His consultancy services are used by
industry and by government bodies and frequently involve
working as a member of multi-disciplinary teams assembled
from a diverse range of institutions.
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David Livingstone
is a physical organic chemist with over twenty years experience
in pharmaceutical research. During this time he has been
involved in:
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The development and application of mathematical
and statistical methods |
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- QSAR
- neural networks
- genetic algorithms |
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Development of combined QSAR and computational chemistry
methods |
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Spread of 'drug design' methods to other applications
and industries - the mathematical and statistical
techniques employed in drug design are not restricted
to pharmaceuticals and can, in principle, be applied
to the design of any group of 'performance' chemicals such as agrochemicals, flavours, fragrances,
dyestuffs and so on |
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Characterisation of intermolecular interactions
including the interaction of compounds with proteins
such as serum albumin and the measurement of electron-donor-acceptor
interactions (charge transfer) in order to provide
a descriptor for drug design. |
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Alistair
Boxall is an environmental
chemist with research interests in the fate, behaviour
and effects of organic chemicals in the environment. His
research interests include: approaches for environmental
risk assessment; bioavailability of contaminants; environmental
monitoring studies; environmental fate modelling; and
the use of molecular modelling techniques to predict toxicity.
With a broad based training in environmental
chemistry and ecotoxicology, Alistair has previously worked
at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, The University of Sheffield,
Liverpool John Moores University, the Water Research Centre,
and Cranfield University. He is currently joint leader
of the EcoChemistry Team at the Central Science Laboratory
and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York.
He is a member of a number of
professional bodies that include the UK Veterinary Products
Committee, the Bioactives Group of the Society of the
Chemical Industry and the Society of Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry.
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