Nigel Hooper - Curriculum Vitae#

• A research scientist with 30 years of experience in biochemistry and cell biology focused on neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
  

• Published over 180 primary research papers, with an h index of 55
  

• Secured >£15 million in research funding with continuous support since 1993 from the UK Medical Research Council.
  

• Previously Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Alzheimer’s Research UK and member of the MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board.
  

• Supervised 40 postgraduate students to successful completion of PhD.
  

• Wide experience of University strategic leadership and management (as Head of School/Institute, Vice Dean for Research, Dean)
  

• Co-author of the highly successful and popular undergraduate textbook ‘Instant Notes: Biochemistry’. To date over 40,000 copies of the four editions of this book have been sold worldwide and it has been translated into Polish, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Hames, B.D. & Hooper, N.M. (2011). Instant Notes Biochemistry, 4th edition, Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group, New York & London, pp.473.
  

• 1990 - 1998 Editorial advisor, Biochemical Journal
  
• 1995 – 2007 Editorial advisor, Molecular Membrane Biology
  
• 1997 – 2000 Member, Membrane Group of the Biochemical Society
  
• 1998 - 2002 Member, Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal
  
• 2000 - 2002 Member, Neurochemical Group of the Biochemical Society
  
• 2000 - 2004 Member, Neurosciences and Mental Health Board of the Medical Research Council (MRC)
  
• 2001 Member, Joint UK Funders Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) Expert Panel
  
• 2001 - 2004 Member, MRC/Department of Health Research Advisory Group for TSEs
  
• 2002 - 2009 Deputy Chairman, Biochemical Journal
  
• 2003 - 2004 Member, MRC Brain Sciences I panel
  
• 2003 – 2011 Advisory Board, Essays in Biochemistry
  
• 2004 – 2009 Member, Government Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC)
  
• 2004 Member, MRC Brain Sciences II panel
  
• 2005 – 2007 Member, MRC New Therapies Scrutiny Group – Prion Disease
  
• 2005- 2006 Member, MRC New Investigator Award Panel
  
• 2007 – 2011 Editorial Board, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease
  
• 2007 – 2011 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Alzheimer’s Research UK
  
• 2009 – 2014 Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  
• 2011 – 2014 Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Alzheimer’s Research UK
  
• 2012 to date Series Editor, Essays in Biochemistry