But Sir John, a Royal Society research professor at Oxford University, said his lack of experience would make it easier for him to introduce the fresh approach that the agency would seek to provide.
"We compared what you see in these galaxies with what you see in the field galaxy population, other galaxies at the same epoch and distance, and there is a stark difference - far more star formation and black hole growth, " the Cambridge University scientist and Royal Society research fellow explained to the BBC News website.
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According to the Royal Society, research that has been assessed as world class attracts around 90% of university science funding.
Sir Bob May, the president of the Royal Society, said he hoped research into GM animals would be funded primarily by public sources so that it could meet the needs of developing countries, rather than being driven by the desires of agribusiness for leaner meat and cheaper food.
Hard on the heels of this report came some damaging headlines based on research presented to the Royal Economic Society's annual conference by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
This reflects earlier research by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) which estimated the number of trampoline related fractures having looked at the records from 18 hospitals.
Keith Hayward, head of research at the Royal Aeronautical Society, said that if the issue is no longer about replacing a faulty battery, it raised the prospect of Boeing having to do a major re-design.
The research, published in the Royal Society's Proceedings: Biological Sciences, was carried out on cows, but the authors claimed similar antibiotic treatments could be just as effective in eliminating the infection in humans.
Baroness Finlay, a doctor and former president of the Royal Society of Medicine, highlighted the importance of research when treating patients, and asked how the government plans to preserve academic health partnerships in light of its proposals to reform the healthcare system in England.
The Royal Society will host a meeting in London on stem cell research on Thursday and Friday.
Dr Kessel's research was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
The research is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
The research findings appear in the latest edition of the Royal Society Proceedings B.
What is new about Dr Cinzano's research, which is about to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that he and his colleagues have managed to take account of the effects of back-scattering by clouds and dust in the atmosphere, as well as the effects of the original sources of the light themselves.
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