CRO Icon has appointed Dr. Hugh Brady as a non-executive director on the board of directors.

Brady is president Emeritus of University College Dublin (UCD), a European research-intensive university, where he was president from 2004 until the end of 2013. Brady oversaw a significant expansion of UCD’s science, engineering and biomedical research capacity, including the development of the Conway Institute for Biomedical Research, UCD Clinical Research Center

He spent time at Harvard University, including a period as associate professor of Medicine. In parallel with his academic career at Harvard, he was director of the Renal Division of the Brockton/West Roxbury VA Medical Center and consultant physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.