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About BIRAs Aims and Activities Articles of Association Recent Changes BIRAs Committee Sponsorship This Web Site The BIRAs Committee Officers Other Committee Members Responsibilities of Officers Elections Election of Committee Members  These details form part of BIRAs' Articles of Association. The Association's meetings programme and general organization is run by a Committee of no more than fifteen research scientists, drawn from both the pharmaceutical industry and from academia. The elected Committee has the authority to co-opt members to maintain a fair and balanced representation of the interests of the Association's members, within the spirit of these Guidelines. The committee should consist of approximately equal numbers of scientists from academia and industry. The Committee will choose from its membership the: Chairman; General Secretary/Vice-Chairman; Treasurer; Membership Secretary; Meetings Secretary, UK Editor for Inflammation Research and other posts as deemed necessary by the committee.  Each year, the Officers of Committee retire and the positions are up for re-election at the Annual General Meeting. Officers are selected from members of the committee only, and should have been a member of the committee for at least one year. Retiring Committee members are eligible to stand again, with no limit to the number of successive terms in office. For all posts (excepting the post of Chairman), where there is more than one candidate for a post the committee, excepting the Chairman and the individuals under consideration, shall take a vote. In situations where there is a tie, the Chairman shall have a casting vote. For the post of Chairman, the next senior officer of the committee (or where there is none, the next committee member who is not standing for the post, in ascending alphabetical order) will abstain and have a casting vote. Any unsuccessful applicant(s) has the right to appeal. In the cases of an appeal there will be a postal ballot of all members of BIRAs for the vacant seat(s). Any member of the committee, as members of BIRAs, has the right to cast a vote in such an election. The AGM, and the vacant posts, will be advertised to all members at least 8 weeks in advance. Members of the committee, who are not able to attend the AGM, can cast their vote by post or email Nominations for members of the committee are sought from any British Inflammation Research Association member, at any time. Nominees should indicate their willingness to stand by contacting the present Chairman (see above). Proposers, seconders and nominees must all be members of the British Inflammation Research Association. Where the committee is up to maximum strength of fifteen members, a vote will be held of all the present committee. If there are more candidates nominated than there are places (15 in total) on the Committee, election of additional members will be put to a vote of all the committee, conducted by email or post. In addition, or alternatively, where there are several candidates to choose from an election, involving only the Committee Members, will be held by post or email. In the event of a Committee member having to relinquish their post during his/her term of office, the candidate receiving the next greatest number of votes at that election will take the vacated place, with the term of office running for the remainder of the term of the original Committee member. Other duties will be distributed on an ad hoc basis. All committee members should make every attempt to attend the majority of committee meetings. It is essential that Officers should attend all (or if not possible then the majority of) committee meetings. The Committee will endeavour to ensure a fair distribution of all Committee posts and the work of the committee.