David is a European Registered Toxicologist and a Fellow of the British Toxicology Society as well as a Chartered Biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. David lectures at the University of Surrey and the University of Wales.
With a background in pharma and contract research, David then joined the MHRA (formerly the Medicines Control Agency) in 1996, where he was recently working as an Expert Nonclinical Assessor, responsible for assessing the nonclinical data for Clinical Trial Authorisation Applications and chairing over a hundred scientific advice meetings every year.