David Tosh - Deputy Chair

David Tosh received his BSc in Physiology from Queen's University Belfast in 1986 and his PhD at the Department of Medicine, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1990 under the supervision of Professor Loranne Agius and Professor Sir George Alberti. He then moved to the University of Dundee to carry out research in Professor Brian Burchell's laboratory at Ninewells Hospital. Here he worked on transporters involved in UDP-glucuronosyltransferase detoxification. In 1994, he moved to the University of Bath and is now a Reader. His current research focuses on the ability to transdifferentiate (or convert) one differentiated cell type to another. Transdifferentiation (or metaplasia) has implications for understanding the development of cancer, stem cell differentiation and the production of cells for therapeutic transplantation.