Bruce Whitelaw

Bruce Whitelaw holds the Genus Personal Chair of Animal Biotechnology at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (RDSVS) of the University of Edinburgh. He is also Interim Director of the same university’s Roslin Institute. A pioneer in the use of lentivirus vectors for transgene delivery, he is now working on a robust methodology for genome editing in livestock, in order to combat infectious disease in animals and evaluate new treatments for human disease through transgenic animal models. A former editor-in-chief of Transgenic Research, he has worked with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.