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Dr Gavin Jarvis
MA MA PhD VetMB MRCVS
Hon. Treasurer
Dr Gavin Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Sunderland, and a qualified veterinary surgeon (non-practising).
He has over 30 years of experience teaching pharmacology to medical, veterinary, pharmacy and science students, and a long-standing academic interest in drug actions, particularly those affecting platelets, having previously worked as a research pharmacologist at AstraZeneca on the project that discovered the anti-platelet drugs ticagrelor and cangrelor.
Sincerest Thanks for Your Support
Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.
We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now being closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the Centre closed.