Julie Fitzpatrick

Biography

Julie Fitzpatrick is the Scientific Director of the Moredun Research Institute and Chief Executive of the Moredun Foundation. She also holds a Chair in Food Security in the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Professor Fitzpatrick's research interests focus on livestock health and disease in the UK and in developing countries. Professor Fitzpatrick is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Research Committee and is also Vice-Chair of the Board of GALVmed, a public private partnership focusing on supporting the development of biologicals and therapeutics for orphan diseases in developing countries. She is also a member of the BBSRC’S Food Security Strategic Advisory Panel and of The Wellcome Trusts’ Veterinary Fellowship Panel. In 2003 she was awarded the G Norman Hall Medal for research into animal diseases by the RCVS Trust.

Research Interest

livestock health and disease, veterinary and life Sciences