Sir Robert Brian Heap (born 27 February 1935) is a British biological scientist. He was educated at

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in the Peak District, Derbyshire, and the

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(where he earned his BSc and PhD). He also has an MA and a ScD from the University of Cambridge and Honorary DScs from Nottingham (1994), York (2001) and St Andrews (2007).Who's Who 2009

Career

* 1960 University Demonstrator,

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* 1963 Lalor Research Fellow, ARC Institute of Physiology,

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, Cambridge * 1964-95 Staff Member, AFRC Institute of Physiology, Babraham, serving as Head, Dept of Physiology, 1976; Head of Cambridge Research Station, 1986; Director Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge and Edinburgh, 1989–93; Director of Science, BBSRC, Swindon 1991–94 and Director BBSRC Babraham Institute, 1993–94. * 1994-2001 Visiting Senior Fellow, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge Heap's primary research interest was in reproductive biology and the function of hormones in reproduction. His research into the control of pregnancy, birth and lactation led to important contributions in endocrine physiology and farm animal breeding. He has published on endocrine physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption and production, and science advice for policy makers. He was the

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of St Edmund's College,

, from 1996 until 2004 and has been a Special Professor in Animal Physiology at the

since 1988 until 2016. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1989, and held the post of Royal Society Vice President and Foreign Secretary from 1996 to 2001. He was Executive Editor of the '' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B'' from 2004-2007. He is a founder member of the

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and an Associate of the

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. Brian Heap was President of the Institute of Biology (now Royal Society of Biology) 1996-1998, UK Representative on the

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Strasbourg, 1994–97, a member of the

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1996-2001, UK Representative on the

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1998-2005, member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for Emergency Responses (SAPER) at the

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, Chairman of the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park and Public Health Genetics, 2002-2010, and President of the , 2010-2014. He was co-Project Leader of Biosciences for Farming in Africa, 2014–17, and Senior Adviser of Smart Villages from 2017. In 1994 he was awarded CBE, and in 2001 knighted for services to international science. On 8 October 2007, the Duke of Edinburgh opened three new buildings at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, one of which was named the "Brian Heap Building".St Edmund's College - new buildings

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St Edmund's College: Sir Brian Heap
1935 births Academics of the University of Nottingham Alumni of the University of Nottingham British biologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Living people Masters of St Edmund's College, Cambridge Members of the International Society for Science and Religion {{zoologist-stub