Tim Gant

Professor Gant is Head of the Toxicology Department at the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE), PHE, UK and is the PHE lead for the NIHR Health Protection Unit in the Health Impact of Environmental Hazards. His scientific interests centre on mechanisms of toxicity, genomics and bioinformatics and related to both the effect of genetic and epigenetic variation in determining sensitivity to environmental hazards.

Professor Gant received his undergraduate (Pharmacology and Toxicology joint hons) from the University of London, School of Pharmacy and PhD in Pharmacology (1988) also from the School of Pharmacy. Postdoc and visiting staff positions followed at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Professor Gant returned to the UK as a Career Development Fellow with the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit and achieved tenure in 2002. He led the Systems Toxicology Group at the MRC Toxicology Unit until 2011 when he moved to his present position at CRCE.  He was involved with the Confederation of European Chemical industry Council (CEFIC) from 2002 to 2012 serving on the External Scientific Advisory Panel; chaired from 2004 to 2008.

Professor Gant serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (Brussels, Belgium) and chairs the Emerging Issues Committee of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (Washington DC, USA) – 2017 to date.  Professor Gant has been involved with the British Toxicology Society since being a student and chaired the Scientific Sub Committee from 2012 to 2018 and served on the Executive Committee over the same period.