Professor Iain McInnes CBE is Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Muirhead Chair of Medicine and Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Glasgow.

Professor McInnes is an internationally-recognised leader in global research into rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis having led numerous clinical trials and pathogenesis investigation programmes in inflammatory arthritis at an international level.

He was Chief Investigator of the IMID-Bio-UK meta-consortium leading the UK effort to discover precision medicine tractable biomarkers for application in immune diseases. He is past Chairman of the FOREUM (Foundation for European Rheumatology Research) Scientific Committee, recently lead the European Roadmap programme that defined the research agenda for European rheumatology for the next decade and, from 2019-2021, was President of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), the leading transnational society for rheumatology across Europe.

Among many distinguished accolades, Dr McInnes was awarded the rank of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2019.