Harry Draffan PhD
After studying Chemistry at Glasgow, Baylor and Bristol Universities, Dr Draffan left academia in 1975 to join Inveresk Research. During the period from 1975 to 1999 Dr Draffan directed several divisions of Inveresk including Metabolic Studies, Laboratory Sciences and Inveresk Clinical Research. Dr Draffan was involved in a management buy-out, then sale to SGS Geneva in 1989.

From 1996 until 2000 Dr Draffan was Industrial Adviser to the Graduate School in the Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, and from 2002 until 2004 Dr Draffan chaired the Edinburgh Drug Absorption Foundation.

Dr Draffan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and author or co-author of 40 publications in the fields of analytical, pharmaceutical and environmental chemistry, drug metabolism and clinical pharmacology.