Director of Research
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics
Edinburgh, UK
Phone: +44 131 447-6394
E-mail: calum.mackellar@schb.org.uk
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics
Edinburgh, UK
Phone: +44 131 447-6394
E-mail: calum.mackellar@schb.org.uk
1987-1990 | Doctorate in Biochemistry | University of Stuttgart, Germany |
1984-1987 | Postgraduate diploma in Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering | European High Institute of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France |
1982-1984 | Completed first two years of degree in Chemical Engineering | Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Dr. MacKellar, after completing his Diplome d'Ingénieure in bio-organic chemistry with the European High Institute of Chemistry, now part of the University of Strasbourg, in France and his doctorate in Biochemistry with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He began working in 1991 with the University of Edinburgh and then in industry in Scotland synthesising new kinds of DNA to be used as possible medicinal drugs.
In 1997, he began teaching biological chemistry and bioethics at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, returning to Strasbourg in France, in 2001, to work as a senior civil servant with the Bioethics Division of the Council of Europe.
In 2003, Dr. MacKellar came back to Scotland as the Director of Research of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. Since 2010, he has also been a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor in bioethics at St Mary’s University in London.
2010-Present | Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor of Bioethics, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK |
2003-Present | Director of Research-Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Scottish charity in Edinburgh, UK |
2001-2003 | Senior Civil Servant with the Bioethics Division, Directorate General of Legal Affairs-Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France |
1997-2001 | Visiting/Associate Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Bioethics, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK |
1993-1997 | Research and Development Associate in the synthesis of new kinds of genetic pharmaceuticals, Link Technologies Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland |
2011-Present | Member of the Ethics Master Curriculum Advisory Committee, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
2013-Present | Member of the Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Science and the Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
2005-2014 | Official observer to the Cross-Party Group on Mental Health of the Scottish Parliament |
2005-2013 | Member of the Cross-Party Group on Palliative Care of the Scottish Parliament |
2012 | Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Bioethics & Emerging Technologies, St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK |
2007-2008 | Director of the Waterside Trust which gives grants of more than £ 2.2 million/year to charities |
2005 | Co-ordinator of the first Biomedical Ethics Film Festival in the world |
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