Fellow 2004-2009

Research Interests
Research on how viruses interact with and manipulate the host immune system to enable their replication.

Discovered the HUSH (Human Silencing Hub) complex, an epigenetic repressor complex that assembles heterochromatin and silences newly integrated retroviruses and mobile endogenous retrotransposons including LINE1 elements.

Other Information
Elected a Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences, 2004
Professor of Immunology and Medicine, University of Cambridge, 2005
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2010
Elected member of EMBO 2019
Wellcome Trust Infection and Immunity Panel, 2008-2010
Chairperson: Wellcome Trust ERG Panel, 2010-2013
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, 2013–present
Professoral Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, 2013–present
Winner GSK Discovery Fast Track Challenge, 2015
MRC Clinical Training and Career Development Panel, 2016–present