Dr Maurice Cross

Born in the Channel Islands of the UK, Maurice Cross graduated in Medicine from Aberdeen University in 1972 and began a career in academic medicine as a Medical Research Council Junior Research Fellow at Northwick Park Hospital. After a training period in Cardiology he entered the Offshore Oil Industry as physician to COMEX diving, focusing on the physiological aspects of putting man under the sea at increasing depth. This start sealed his career as an experimental physician/pharmacologist and, after a second period as an academic at Newcastle University, he founded Phase I Clinical Trials Unit in 1987 in Plymouth, UK.

Since then, Maurice has been associated with Phase I Clinical Trials Unit Ltd. and more recently with Phase Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. All organisations focus on the problems of early drug development either from a basic science or early clinical perspective. Recently he led Phase I Clinical Trials Unit Ltd. into a merger with an Indian CRO and continues to influence the Veeda Clinical Research^® Group in his role as Director.