Moira Whyte

Moira Whyte
Alma mater	University of London
Awards	Order of the British Empire
Scientific career
Fields	Respiratory Medicine
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

Moira Katherine Brigid Whyte OBE, FRCP, FMedSci, FERS is a Scottish physician and medical researcher who is the Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Head of Edinburgh Medical School and is the Director the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

Professor Whyte trained in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School and Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Whyte completed clinical fellowships with The Medical Research Council (MRC) and Wellcome Trust. Professor Whyte became Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sheffield in 1996. In 2014 Professor Whyte moved to become the Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Whyte is an honorary officer and Registrar of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Whyte is active in the Medical Research Council (MRC) as the Chair of the MRC Clinical Training and Careers Panel and was formerly a Member of the MRC Population and Systems Medicine Board (PSMB) and was also Deputy Chair of the MRC/NIHR Efficacy and Mechanisms Evaluation (EME) Board. She is also an Honorary Consultant Physician and member of the NHS Lothian Health Board.

Awards

Whyte was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2014.