Professor Trevor McMillan is chair of the 1994 Group Research and Enterprise Policy Group and is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for research at Lancaster University. He is responsible for research development, relationships with major funding bodies and other organisations, performance indicators and Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) policy.

Trevor McMillan is Peel Professor of Cancer Biology and a member of the Biomedical and Life Sciences in the division in the Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University.

His research interests are directed towards the characterisation of the mechanistic and genetic basis of sensitivity to DNA damage in mammalian cells in relation to cancer causation, predisposition and therapy.