Prof Cherry Wainwright

Cherry graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology and subsequently the University of Strathclyde with a PhD in Cardiovascular Pharmacology. She is a Fellow and Vice President (Meetings) of the British Pharmacological Society and the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the IUPHAR Natural Products Section Committee. Cherry spent over 20 years at Strathclyde as an academic involved in both teaching and research, before moving to the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen in 2003 as a Research Professor, where she spent 8 years as the Director of the multi-disciplinary Institute for Health & Wellbeing Research (2007-2015). She is now the lead in Cardiometabolic Health Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Natural Products in Health.