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Author Biography: Langley

Last Updated: December 6, 2007
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Dr. Gill Langley is the Dr. Hadwen Trust's Science Director. She has an honours degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a doctorate in neurochemistry, also from Cambridge. As a research fellow at Nottingham University she studied neurochemistry in vitro. She has led the Dr Hadwen Trust's science and outreach programmes since 1981.

Dr. Langley served for eight years as a member of the British government's Animal Procedures Committee, which advises the Home Secretary on animal experimentation issues. She was an adviser to the government on the introduction of the new EU chemicals legislation, REACH. She has been an invited expert at several initiatives of the European Commission and of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Dr. Langley is a member of the Replacement Advisory Group of the British government's National Centre for Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of animals in research.

Dr. Gill Langley
Dr Hadwen Trust
84a Tilehouse Street
Hitchin
Herts
SG5 2DY
UK
E-mail: gill@drhadwentrust.f2s.com