Adam Woolley MSc DABT FRCPath CBiol MIBiol

Adam has 30 years experience as toxicologist, of which nine years were spent in the pharmaceutical industry and 21 years in contract research, including the post of Director of Toxicology/Pathology at Quintiles, Scotland. He has broad experience in pharmaceutical development and the conduct and reporting toxicological reviews for a wide range of substances, including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, veterinary products and consumer products. This has recently included presentations to various European authorities, such as the EMEA, MHRA and BfArm.

Adam is certified as a toxicologist in both Europe (Eurotox Registered Toxicologist) and the USA (DABT), and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a Chartered Biologist. He has been involved in a number of training initiatives and has a published various papers and a successful textbook "A Guide to Practical Toxicology: evaluation, prediction and risk"; (Taylor & Francis 2003), currently used by the University of Surrey for their postgraduate training course for toxicologists.

He is also a Fellow of the British Toxicology Society, and a member of The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (TOPRA) and the Institute of Biology. He is a Director on the Board of the American Board of Toxicology and has recently finished as Chair of the Registration Panel to the UK Register of Toxicologists. He is an examiner in toxicology for the Royal College of Pathologists and an Honorary Consultant in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Manchester, where he is an author and tutor on an MSc course in pharmaceutical toxicology, part of the Pharmaceutical Industry Advanced Traning programme.