 In October 2000, she became a governor of the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest biomedical research charity.In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and she is also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).Between 2000 and 2005, she served as president of the Biochemical Society and was granted honorary membership of that body in 2008.