Dr Alan Munro

Alan Munro trained as a Biochemist at Cambridge but has worked most of his active life in the field of Immunology. He co-authored an advanced text-book in Immunology and has published extensively in the scientific literature.

After nearly thirty years of research and teaching for Cambridge University and the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, he left the University to set up a Biotech company - Cantab Pharmaceuticals plc - in Cambridge in 1989. After over six years as the Chief Scientific Officer of Cantab, he left the Company in 1995 to take up the position of Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and finally retiring in July of 2002.

Apart from being on the Board of Blackwell Publishing Ltd, he is on the Board of two Biotech companies in Cambridge, and consults for the Economic Development Board of the Singapore Government and for Abingworth Management, a UK-based venture capital company specialising in early stage healthcare companies.