Alys Bradley

ESTP Congress
alys.bradley@crl.com
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Alys attained an Honours degree in Zoology from Manchester University, and a Masters in Applied Veterinary Parasitology from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She then held research posts at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool University department of Pathology, in the field of monoclonal antibody development and refinement. She gained her Degree in Veterinary Medicine from Liverpool University in 1994 and following a year working for the Ministry of Agriculture as a Local Veterinary Inspector for private zoo collections, safari parks and butterfly farms in the South East of England, and as an Official Veterinary Surgeon for red meat and white meat production, she joined the Pathology Department of Edinburgh University as HBLB lecturer in Neuropathology. Whilst in Edinburgh she worked closely with the Neuropathogenesis unit on scrapie and BSE research, and the Roslin Institute on poultry research. She was recruited to the Pathology Department of Charles River Edinburgh in 1998, appointed Director of Pathology in 2005 and Senior Director in 2022. Alys is actively involved in training pathologists and is a past chair of the Board of Examiners for the UK Veterinary Pathology boards (anatomic and clinical pathology) regulated by the Royal College of Pathologists. She is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) recognised Specialist in Veterinary pathology and was awarded Fellowship of the RCVS for Meritorious Contributions to the Profession. She was awarded Fellowship of the IATP in 2012. Her specialist interests are non-human primate pathology, rabbit pathology, digital pathology and neuropathology of all species. She completed the NSH/DPA Certificate in Digital Pathology in 2021. She served as Treasurer of the British Society of Toxicological Pathologists from 2004 until 2022 and is a member of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology Special Interest Groups for Neuropathology, Digital Pathology, Non-Human Primate Pathology, Medical Devices and Environmental Toxicology. She serves on the International Harmonisation of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria (INHAND) GESC and chairs the Working Groups for the Nervous System and Rabbit INHAND nomenclatures. She is also a member of the SEND/FDA Tumour Combination Working Group. She is a member of the IATP Fellowship Accreditation committee (2023-26). She is a foundation member of the teaching faculty of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree in Mouse Pathobiology awarded jointly by the Universities of Barcelona, Naples, Rome, Lisbon and Thessaloniki. She is the author of several book chapters on Neuropathology, Digital Pathology, Stem cell Evaluation and Rabbit pathology, is co-editor of Boorman’s Pathology of the Laboratory Rat, editor of Pathology of the Laboratory Primate, and Pathology of the Laboratory Rabbit.