Former Fellows

Fellow 2000-2002

Research Interests
Post-transcriptional regulation during neural stem cell development and synaptic plasticity in Drosophila: its function in health and disease.

Other Information
Resigned fellowship on the award of a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship 1.7.02
Elected a Member of the Institute 2003
Promoted to Chair of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, 2003
Moved to Oxford, 2007
Elected as EMBO member in 2010

Fellow 1996-2000

Research Interests
Molecular genetic epidemiology and mutation detection. Linking variations in specific genome regions to cardiovascular and metabolic risk traits and early growth.
Methodology for handling and analyzing large population DNA banks.

Other Information
Appointed to a Personal Chair in Human Genetics at the University of Southampton, 1.10.97
Appointed Head of Division, October 1999
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2002

Fellow 1996-2001

Research Interests
Structure and function of bacterial cell surface proteins. Engineering of virus-like particles for use as scaffolds for antigen assemblies in vaccine design. Immunological responses to vaccines and biotherapeutic drugs.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.8.2000
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2002
Promoted to Reader, 2004

Fellow 1995-2001

Research Interests
Molecular regulation of apoptosis: its relationship to disease, particularly cancer. Drug induced apoptosis and its suppression. Validation and imple-mentation of pharmaco-kinetic and dynamic assays.

Other Information
Granted maternity leave from 17.2.97 to 18.5.97. Fellowship extended to 28.2.01
1998 Charles Darwin lecturer for the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Promoted to Reader, 1.10.98
Awarded personal chair in Molecular Pharmacology from 1.1.02 (to be held jointly with the Schools of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and of Biological Sciences)
Elected a Member of the Institute 2002
Appointed head of division of Physiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, April 2003
Moved to Paterson Institute of Cancer Research as Senior Group Leader, Cell & Molecular Pharmacology, 1.9.03
Remains Professor of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University of Manchester
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2016

Fellow 2002-2007

Research Interests
Interfaces between DNA double strand break repair and chromatin.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow
Transferred location from Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge to Reader at University of Sussex, 2007
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2008
Professor, 2015
Transferred to Institute of Cancer Research, 2016

Fellow 1991-1996

Research Interests
Bacterial population genetics and the evolution of antibiotic resistance and virulence.

Other Information
Promoted to Grade III of the Research and Analogous Faculty Salary Scale, 1.9.93
Reader in Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick from 1.3.96
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997
Awarded a personal chair from 1.10.00

Fellow 2013 – 2019

Research Interests
Vaccine-induced immunity, with particular focus on antibody immunology and human malaria infection.

Other Information
Supernumerary Fellow of Merton College, October 2009
Jenner Investigator, December 2010
Associate Professor, University of Oxford, July 2014
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, August 2015
Appointed Professor of Vaccinology and Translational Medicine, August 2018
Extended Fellowship to September 2019
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2018
Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2025