David Becker. Ph.D

Professor David Becker obtained his BSC in 1985 and PhD in 1988. He was awarded a prestigious 10 year Royal Society Research Fellowship in 1994 and is now a Reader in Cellular Imaging at University College London which is ranked in the top 10 research Universities in the world. Prof. Becker has published over 80 research articles and book chapters, with a Publication H-Index of 24 and acts as a reviewer for over 35 international journals and over 16 national and international grant funding agencies (including the USA NSF and NIH, New Zealand, Israel, the UK Wellcome Trust, MRC, BBSRC and The Royal Society). He is Director of the Centre for Cell and Molecular Dynamics imaging facility for the Faculty of Life Sciences UCL, which he has built up to be one of the best live cell imaging facilities worldwide, housing 10 confocal and multiphoton microscopes. In 2003 Prof. Becker won the Medical Futures Nomura award for the Best Biotech Start-Up Innovation.

Colin Green. Ph.D

Professor Colin Green obtained his PhD in 1980 and DSc in 1997. He has worked in France, the USA (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston) and England (including 7 years at University College London as a Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Cell and Molecular Biology) and won the International Robert Feulgen Prize for his cardiac research in 1992. Prof. Green has published over 100 research articles and book chapters, with a Publication H-Index of 27, including two papers in Nature and one in Science and has reviewed for over 20 international journals and over 15 national and international grant funding agencies (including the USA NSF and NIH, the UK Wellcome Trust and The Royal Society). He is on the Editorial Board of three international journals, including Regional Editor (Oceania) for Cell Biology International. Prof. Green was founding Director of the Biomedical Imaging Research Unit at the University of Auckland in 1993 and attained a Personal Chair in Anatomy with Radiology in 2004. In 2005 Professor Green was appointed to the inaugural W&B Hadden Chair in Ophthalmology and Translational Vision Research at the University of Auckland.