Previous other roles have included being Director of the NIHR-funded English National Cancer Research Networks, Scottish CSO lead for clinical cancer research and Director of Cancer Services in NHS Lothian. He was also the clinical director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre and the Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. He has been a member of several cancer research funding committees including INCA PHRC, PAIR (Sein), Cancer Research UK Science committee, Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Committee, and from time to time various NIHR funding bodies including EME, clinical trials fellows committee. He is on the advisory board of the ICR and Glasgow Clinical Trials Units, and formerly on the Bordeaux Institute Bergonie SIRIC and the Cardiff Cancer Clinical and Translational Research programmes advisory boards.