Cross-Party Group on Life Sciences Tuesday 20th February 2024, 17:45 – 19:15 Minute MSPs Kenneth Gibson MSP Michael Marra MSP Graham Simpson MSP Invited guests Fiona Hamill, Senior Manager, Enterprise Government Affairs & Policy UK, (Johnson and Johnson Professor George Crooks, CEO, The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) William Kendall, Product Manager (DHI) Dr David Irvine, Consultant Haematologist, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow Professor Roger Halliday, CEO (Research Data Scotland) Non-MSP Group Members Ally Boyle, NHS Lanarkshire Non-executive Board member Jacqueline Barry, Chief Clinical Officer at Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult Marian McNeil, Chief Executive Officer at Precision Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre Alexander Weir, Senior Technical Manager, Canon Medical Research Alison Culpan, ABPI, Director Scotland Andrew Henderson, Team Leader at Scottish Enterprise Brenda Dooley, Founder and CEO, AXIS Consulting Brian Forbes, Director, Government Affairs, Devolved Nations Caleb Meath, Policy Manager, ABPI Claire Headspeath, ABPI, Operations Manager Damian Crombie, Regional Healthcare Manager, AstraZeneca David Bowie, Managing Partner, Albany Business Consultants David Chang, Professor of Surgical Oncology and Honorary Consultant Pancreatic Surgeon Dr Annie McRobbie, Education Manager for Biology, SSERC Dr Christian Cole, Senior Lecturer - Health Informatics, University of Dundee Dr David Powell, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), LifeArc Dr Poonam Malik, Head of Investments, University of Strathclyde Esmé Pringle, Reporter, Ettrickburn Ewan Morrison, Director of Pharmacy at NHS National Services Scotland Frankie Toner, Public Affairs Manager, Market Access and Public Affairs, Chiesi George Davidson, Director Of External Affairs at GSK Greg Stevenson, Director, Greg Stevenson Consulting Limited Iain Chalmers, National Market Access Manager, Thornton and Ross Imme Jones, Policy Lead – Data Driven Innovation, Scottish Government James Squires, PhD, Head of Data and Digital Policy, ABPI Joe Edwards, Director of UK Competitiveness and Devolved Nations, ABPI John Macgill, Director at Ettrickburn Limited Karen Facey, Evidence Based Health Policy Consultant, University of Edinburgh Leigh Mair, Project & Development Manager, SRHP, University of the Highlands and Islands Lindsay Cameron, Regional Access Manager, Daiichi Sankyo Mark Cook, Chair, ILG Mark Wilkinson, Director of Partnerships & Business Development, Data Lab Nick Murray, Principal Pharmacist – New Medicines, NHS National Services Scotland Nicola Watt, Team Leader at Scottish Enterprise Nicolas Peyret, Health Economy Team Leader at Scottish Enterprise Peter Mclaughlin, Head of IT, Precision Medicine Scotland Philip Jones, Chief Scientific Advisor, BioAscent Professor Crispin Miller, Head of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, CRUK Scotland Institute Professor David Littlejohn, Special Adviser To the Principal, Strathclyde University Professor Frank Gunn-Moore, Head of School at School of Biology, University of St Andrews Professor John Le Quesne, Mazumdar-Shaw Chair in Molecular Pathology, University of Glasgow Professor Kenneth Baillie, Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh Professor Seshadri Vasan, R&D Director, NHS Grampian Professor Sir Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee Robert Crawford, Healthcare Partnership Manager (Central & South Scotland), Thornton and Ross Ryan Anderson, Policy Lead for Data and Intelligence - Digital Health and Care, Scottish Government Sarah Hunt, Key Sector Manager – Life and Chemical Sciences, Skills Development Scotland Sonja Hart, Senior Associate (Technology & Commercial), Burness and Paul Stephen Jasperse, Site Engagement Director at IQVIA Thorsten Forster, Scientific Director, LifeArc Tobias Croft, Head of Innovation - Health, Scottish Government Apologies Ivan McKee MSP Brian Whittle MSP Agenda item 1 Opening, Welcome and Introductions Convener Kenneth Gibson (KG) welcomed everyone to the first meeting of the Cross-Party Group in 2024. th Minutes of the previous meeting (14 November 2023) The minutes of the previous meeting were accepted.