21 Feb 07

Professor Anthony Monaco, currently Director of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, is to take up the role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources) from 1 May 2007.

Professor Monaco undertook his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and was awarded his MD-PhD from Harvard Medical School, where he was involved in the identification of the gene for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) laboratories, followed by four years as an ICRF senior scientist and head of the Human Genetics Laboratory at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University. In 1995 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and joined the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics to work on the genetic basis of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, specific language impairment and dyslexia. He has been Director of the Centre since 1998. He is a Fellow of Merton College.

Professor Monaco will take over from Mr Donald Hay, who has been Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources) since October 2006. Mr Hay will step down at Easter, and transitional arrangements are currently being discussed.

Professor Monaco will hold the Pro-Vice-Chancellorship for five years.