Page 62 - Eclipse - Autumn/Winter 2023

Doctoral alumni’s big new role

ormer RVC BSc and PhD During his Intercalated BSc and PhD,
student James Mount has James was supervised by Professor
been unanimously elected as Joanna Price and Dr Imelda McGonnell.
Fchair of the Committee for He also worked closely with Dr Steven
Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP) Allen. James said: “I would very much
Pharmacovigilance Working Party like to express my gratitude to them all.
(PhVWP-V). The role of chair has a I would not be where I am today without
three-year mandate, with the possibility their support early on in my career.”
to extend a further three years. The More recently he has published in Vet
PhVWP-V is composed of European Record Open on veterinary and medical
experts from all 27 EU countries selected adverse events, including those in
according to their specific expertise animals and children after secondary
and provides guidance and advice on exposure to transdermal hormone-
the co-ordination and supervision of the containing medicinal products.
pharmacovigilance of veterinary medicinal
products within the EU.
On his election, James commented:
“I am looking forward to further raising
the status of the Working Party,
increasing the engagement of members
and starting to identify specific areas
of Veterinary Pharmacovigilance that
can be harmonised at a global level. I
am also eager to increase the use of
alternative sources of information to
complement traditional adverse event
reporting by veterinary professionals and
animal owners. A specific area is the
use of information directly from practice
management systems as well as farm
data systems.”
James has worked in Sweden for
13 years – originally working as a
laboratory animal veterinarian at the
Karolinska Institute and is currently a
Pharmacovigilance Assessor at the
Swedish Medical Products Agency.
He has also worked as a veterinary
pathologist at Sweden’s National
Veterinary Institute.

He completed his Intercalated BSc
Comparative Pathology course at the
RVC between 2003 and 2004 and
then PhD at the RVC between 2004
and 2008. His PhD was in the field of
cellular and molecular biology and his
research used red deer antler growth
as a unique regenerative model in
mammals. It resulted in a thesis entitled
‘The origin and regulation of progenitor
cells in the regenerating antler.’ He
later returned to Liverpool University to
complete his final two years of BVSc.
62