Elliot Lilley PhD

Elliot is a programme manager at the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, which works to achieve a more effective ethical review of animal use and implementation of the Three Rs. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from King’s College London in 1997 and then began a 15-year career in the pharmaceutical industry; initially at the James Black Foundation and latterly at Novartis. He is an experienced lecturer in animal welfare, receptor theory, drug discovery, and GI pharmacology and contributes to teaching as part of the BPS general and advanced receptor theory diploma module. In 2012, he joined the RSPCA research animals department where his main areas of work related to promoting refinement, including reducing severe suffering, experimental design, and translational validity. Elliot has been a member of the British Pharmacological Society since 1998, a former member of the meetings committee, and a current member of the animal welfare and in vivo pharmacology committee. He is the animal ethics editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology.