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Phil Dale
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Phil Dale, Ph.D. is Leader of the Genetic Modification and Biosafety Research Group at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. |
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Prof. Dale worked in agriculture for several years before graduating in Agricultural Botany and obtaining a doctorate in Plant Genetics. Following a period of plant breeding and genetics research at the former Welsh Plant Breeding Station (1972-85), he became Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge (1985-90), where he was involved in the first field experiments with GM crops in the UK (1987 onwards) and led several UK and EU research programmes on the biosafety assessment of GM crops. He moved to the John Innes Centre in Norwich in 1990 and currently leads several research programmes on GM crops, primarily studying the behaviour and stability of GM crops and their environmental and food safety. From 1993 to 1999, he was a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE). In 1998 he became a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes and was appointed Deputy Chair in 2002. In 2000 he joined the newly-formed Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, to provide the UK Government with independent strategic advice on developments in biotechnology and their implications for agriculture and the environment. He was a member of the GM Public Debate Steering Board, the GM Science Review Pane and advised the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit on GM crops. He was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of East Anglia in August 2000, became a Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 2002 and was appointed as Honorary Professor linked to the Department of Law at the University of Sheffield in 2003. |
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