Professor Quintin McKellar
Quintin McKellar graduated from Glasgow University Veterinary School in 1981. He
went on to gain his PhD in Veterinary Parasitology in 1984 and was appointed to a
lectureship at the Veterinary School in the same year. He became Head of the
Veterinary Pharmacology Department in 1990.
In 2004, Professor McKellar was appointed Principal of The Royal Veterinary College
of the University of London.
Professor McKellar has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire since
01 January 2011.
He was awarded a personal professorship by the University of Glasgow in 1996 and
in August 1997 took up the post of Scientific Director of Moredun Research Institute
and Chief Executive of the Moredun Foundation.
He gained a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with Honours in 2002. He was
elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 2001, Fellow of the Royal Agricultural
Societies in 2002 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003.
Professor McKellar was a member of the Government’s Veterinary Products
Committee (93–01), Special Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (01–
06), and Chairman of the Regulatory Agency Strategy Board (05–08), and the
Scientific Advisory Committee on Bovine Tuberculosis (07–11). He was a member of
the Biological and Biotechnological Research Council from 2005 – 2011 and is
currently a member of the Department of Environmental Food and Rural Affairs
Science Advisory Council. He is chairman of the Biological and Biotechnological
Research Council Animal Research Club and a member of the Hertfordshire Local
Enterprise Partnership. He is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Pirbright Institute
and a non-executive director of the Animal and Plant Health Agency. He is a member
of the Government Chief Scientist Steering Group on Animal and Plant Health in the
UK. He is a Governor of Queenswood School.
His research interests are in the pharmacology of anti-infective and anti-inflammatory
drugs in domestic animals.
He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2011.