Company Scientists
Professor William Dawson Dsc FPharmS FRSC
Chief Science Officer
Professor Bill Dawson trained as pharmacist in Sunderland and then, after a brief period in community pharmacy completed a PhD in pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, researching on the underlying mechanisms of asthma.
After research appointments in the UK and the USA he joined Eli Lilly and Company at their research site in Windlesham, Surrey in 1969.
He was Research Director from 1977 to 1991 and then Director of Technology Acquisition, Europe until he retired in 1996. He has published more than 100 papers and has taken more than 10 compounds into development, including Zyprexa, a novel antipsychotic compound launched by Eli Lilly and Co in 1997.
Professor Dawson is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and of The School of Pharmacy, London.
He is a Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics and Science at Sheffield Hallam University. Currently, Professor Dawson manages his own health care consultancy, Bionet Ltd and is a board member of the Babraham Institute, Biovation Ltd, Enact Pharma plc, Proteome Sciences plc and the William Harvey Research Foundation
Professor Rory Putman BA(hons) D.Phil(Oxon)
Scientific Consultant
Professor Rory Putman is an ecologist and wildlife biologist who has over 25 years' experience in various aspects of wildlife management - involved both in fundamental research and as a consultant practitioner.
From 1976 he worked in the Biology Department of the University of Southampton where he set up and led the University's successful Deer Management Research Group. His research interests throughout were always of an applied nature, focused on the analysis of the behavior and ecology of different wildlife species and of how such knowledge may be applied in the development of more informed and more effective management of the animals and their impact on their environment.
In 1994 he left Southampton to set up in private practice as a wildlife consultant, developing management plans targeted towards the control, exploitation or conservation of a variety of different species - working for organisations such as MAFF, the Forestry Commission, Scottish Natural Heritage and English Nature. Rory Putman also holds a Chair in Environmental Biology at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he has overall responsibility for directing and leading the University's extensive research programmes in wildlife ecology and wildlife management.
In 1989 he edited, on behalf of the Mammal Society, a major book on 'Mammals as Pests', and in total has published 8 books and over 100 technical publications, mostly concerned with wildlife populations and their managemen
DR Steven Havers BA PHD Cbiol FRES
R & D Director
Steven started his career as a scientist at MAFF's Infestation Control Laboratory at Tolworth in 1966. He worked on the assessment of contamination of stored food, maintenance of insect cultures and determination of periods of activity of grain store moths.
Until 1972 he worked as a scientist at ARC/MAFF in the Pest Infestations Control Laboratory at Slough, investigating physical and biological factors associated with grain storage and a study of acarid populations in grain bulks.
Between 1973 and 1996 he ran his own livestock farm, managing poultry breeding and broiler growing units and developing a pig breeding and fattening unit.
In 1990 he was appointed as a vertebrate zoologist as head of a major blue chip companies rodent section. This work involved the assessment of efficacy and palatability of rodenticides. He also investigated queries associatedwith food contamination and carried out numerous behavioural studies.
Between 1990 and 1991 he continued his study of behavioural resistance in urban populations of mice.
For the past ten years he has been pest management consultant, preparing and servicing Pest Management and Farm Assured Schemes. His work also involves investigation of incidents of allegedly contaminated foodstuff for major processors, advising pest control companies and providing technical services to LWT, BBC and Carlton Television.
