About Science Scotland
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Editorial Board
Chair: Professor John Coggins OBE FRSE
Vice-Principal for the Faculties of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine
and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow
Professor Peter Grant OBE FRSE FIET FIEE FREng
Regius Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Professor Angus Lamond FRSE
Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Professor David Milne OBE FRSE FIET SMIEEE FREng. Non-Executive Director, Wolfson Microelectronics plc
Editorial Team
Writer: Peter Barr, barrcomms@btinternet.com
Designer: Emma Quinn
Web Design: MTC Media
Editor: Jenny Liddell, The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Print: Henry Ling Ltd
ISSN 1743 – 6222 (Science Scotland Print) ISSN 1743 – 6230 (online)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scottish Charity No SC000470