Professor Seshardi Vasan

Professor Vasan is the inaugural Director of Grampian Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC), and co-leads on research inclusion, skills, training and workforce development for the CRDC UK Network.

He has a longstanding career in medical leadership and is currently serving as an NHS Research Scotland Management Board Member. He is also an Honorary Professor at Edith Cowan University in Australia.

Previously, he led Australia’s pre-clinical response as Covid-19 Science Leader for the national science agency, CSIRO. In 2020, he led his team to the Chair’s Medal, the CSIRO’s highest award.

In 2024, he received the College’s Triennial Travel Medicine Research Fellowship Award for his work on ‘Disease X’, furthering research into a potential pandemic and global preparedness.

For Public Health England (now known as the UK Health Security Agency), he played a key role as the innovation lead and contributed to the agency’s response to the Ebola and Zika emergencies.

Today, he is also Chair of the College’s Sustainability Steering Group, which is helping the College and its 15,000 Fellows and Members worldwide play their part in addressing climate change and healthcare sustainability.