Former Fellows

Fellow 1994-2000

Area of Current Research Interests
Microtubule protein motors: their regulation, diversity and function; their role in membrane trafficking.

Other Information
Granted a one-year extension to 30.9.00.
Appointed Lecturer 1.10.00.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.02.
Promoted to Professor of Cell Biology, August 2007.

Fellow 1984-1985

Area of Current Research Interests
Has worked in the vaccines industry since 1998. General interest in the pathogenesis and immunobiology of infectious diseases and in human vaccine research and development. Broader interest and expertise in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals industry.

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Presenter of the 6th Sir Henry Dale Lecture, 1984.
Winner of the SGM Fleming Award 1985.
Resigned fellowship on appointment as Professor of Microbiology, University of Reading, 1985.
Winner, Univ Section, Toshiba Year of Invention, 1988.
Visiting Research Fellow, CIBA-GEIGY, 1989-1990.
Head, School of Animal & Microbial Sciences, 1990-1994.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1993.
Member of SEAC (Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee) 1995-2000.
Appointed Vice President of R&D (France) Pasteur Mérieux Connaught, 1999.
Appointed Vice President Discovery & External R & D, Aventis Pasteur, 2001.
Senior Vice President for Research & External R & D, Aventis Pasteur, 2003.
Elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2007.
Appointed to MRC Council 2008-12.
Retired from Sanofi Pasteur, October 2013.
Retired from MRC Council, 2014 (after 6 years in post)
Visiting Professor of Microbiology at University of Reading 1998-present.
Visiting Professor at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, 2013-present.

Fellow 2016- 2021

Area of Current Research Interests Regulation of stem cell potential in the mammalian pituitary gland

Other Information:

Elected to membership of the Institute, 2021
Promoted to Professor, 2024

Fellow 2002-2007

Area of Current Research Interests
Gene expression and cell signalling dynamics in Drosophila.

Other Information
EMBO Young Investigator Award, 2003.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2008.
Promoted to Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, 2013.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2014.

Fellow 2014-2019

Area of Current Research Interests
Dynamics of tRNA abundance and the regulation of protein expression levels

Other Information
Elected as a member of EMBO.
Awarded Francis Crick Medal from the Royal Society.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2018.
Endowed Chair in Biomedical Data Science.
Director, Center for Data Driven Discovery
Member, Department of Structural Biology.
Elected member of the Institute, 2019.
Awarded EMBO Gold medal, 2019.

Title of Research Project

Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature.

Other Information

MIT Technology Review, Europe. ​ “Innovators under 35″, 2016
Eppendorf & Nature. Young European Investigator Award, 2017
Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), 2019
Granted Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2020
Awarded Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact, 2019
Awarded the Boehringer Igeleim FENS research Awards, 2022
Voted onto the IBRO PERC Committee, 2022
Elected Member of EMBO, 2023

Fellow 1990-1997

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular mechanisms underlying the long term persistence of bacterial infections in bones and joints.

Other Information
Elected to a three-year non-stipendiary medical research fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, June 1992.
Appointed Hon Senior Registrar with Oxford RHA for one year from 1.10.92 and granted unpaid leave of absence during this period.
Granted further year’s unpaid leave of absence to 31.12.94.
Promoted to Hon Consultant status from 1.1.95.
Resigned fellowship to take up appointment as Consultant Physician in Charge of the Bone Infection Unit at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, from 1.9.97.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1998.
Medical Director, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, 2003.

Fellow 1999-2005

Area of Current Research Interests
Mycobacterial cell wall biosynthesis: structure, function and biological implications in tuberculosis.

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Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Awarded the 1999 W.H. Pierce Prize from the Society of Applied Microbiology.
Promoted to Professor of Microbial Physiology, 2000
Granted unpaid leave from 1.2.02 to 1.8.02 to re-establish research (fellowship now finishes 31.3.05).
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2006.
The Biochemical Society: Biochemical Society Award, 2008

Fellow 1991-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
Chromatin and nuclear organisation of the mammalian genome, gene packaging and organisation within the chromosomes.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Scientist in the MRC Human Genetics Unit, 1.10.96.
1997 Genetical Society Balfour Lecturer.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in Human Genetics, 1999.
Elected a member of EMBO, 2001.
Nominated as Charles Darwin Award Lecturer 2001, at the BAAS.
Appointed Hon Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2008.
Appointed Head of Section: Chromosome and Gene Expression, MRC Human Genetics Unit, 2009.
Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2008-2013.
Head of Chromosome & Gene Expression, MRC Human Genetics Unit, 2009.
Appointed to Institute’s Governing Body, 2013, re-elected 2018.
President of the Genetics Society, 2015.
Director MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, 2015.
Elected to the Royal Society, 2017
Awarded CBE, 2021

Fellow 2005-2009

Area of Current Research Interests
Functional genomics of malaria parasite development and mosquito transmission.

Other Information
Moved to Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 2007.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2010.
Moved to Umeå University, Sweden, 2018.
Appointed Professor Umeå University, Sweden, 2018.
Director Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden 2018.
ERC Advanced Grant, 2018.

Fellow 1991-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
Interests are chromosome replication and the cell cycle.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Appointed Senior Scientist at ICRF from 1.7.96.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Director, CRC Chromosome Replication Research Group, University of Dundee, from November 1997.
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, from 1.11.97.
Elected member of EMBO, 1999.
Appointed Reader 1.10.00.
Awarded a personal chair in Chromosome Maintenance, November 2001.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 2002.
Elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2012.
Appointed Dean of Research for College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, August 2014.
Appointed Dean of School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, April 2016.
Appointed member of the Institute’s Scientific Committee, 2019.
Professor of Chromosome Maintenance and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation at the University of East Anglia, 2024

Title of Research Project
BREX and phage-bacteria interactions.

Fellow 1983-1987

Area of Current Research Interests
Active in research management, education and administration. General interest in infectious diseases and viral infection processes.

Other Information
Temporary Clinical Senior Registrar 1.4.86 – 31.12.86.
Hon Senior Lecturer/Consultant from 1.4.87.
Appointed Wellcome Senior Lecturer, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, having resigned Lister Fellowship, 1.1.88.
Appointed Lecturer in Medicine, University of Cambridge, 1988.
Appointed Professor of Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, 1.1.91.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1993.
Appointed to the Council of the MRC, 1995.
Elected member of the Institute’s SAC, 1996.
Appointed Chairman of the Molecular & Cell Medicines Board, 1996.
Elected as Foreign Member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Arts & Science, 1998.
Chairman of the Hospital-based Clinical Subjects Unit of Assessment Panel for the 2001 RAE.
Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 1998.
Knighthood, New Year’s Honours List, 2001
Appointed Principal, Imperial College School of Medicine from 1.2.01.
Appointed Chairman of the Joint Medical Advisory Committee to the Higher Education Funding Council 2002.
Appointed Deputy Rector, Imperial College London, 1.10.04.
Appointed Chief Executive, MRC, 2008.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2008.
Appointed Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, 2010.
Appointed Chairman, Cancer Research UK, 2017.
Appointed Board Trustee, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 2017
Appointed Governor, Director & Charity Trustee, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2019
Appointed Council Member, Imperial College London, August 2021

Fellow 1999-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
The regulation of gene activity: specifically, how the level of gene transcription is regulated after activation and how chromatin packaging is disrupted to allow accessibility to genetic information.

Other Information
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2004.
Moved to the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, 1.10.04 as a University Research Fellow.

Fellow 2004-2015

Area of Current Research Interests
Using yeast as a model system to understand the insulin-dependent trafficking of GLUT4 in adipocytes

Other Information
Prize Fellowship extended until 31.12.13.
Promoted to Reader, August 2010.
Fellowship extended to 31.08.15.
Moved to University of York, 2014.

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular cell biology of cytoskeletal transport.

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute 2014.
Elected a member of EMBO, 2015.

Fellow 2009-2014

Area of Current Research Interests
Studying the emergence of neuronal circuits during brain development

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute, 2015.

Fellow 1985-1991

Area of Current Research Interests
Generation of human antibodies in response to infectious agents, particularly HIV and the impact of this on vaccine design.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.87.
One year’s sabbatical at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, July 1989 to August 1990.
Fellowship extended by 2 yrs to Sept 1992 & sabbatical leave at the Scripps Inst extended by 1 yr to Aug 1991.
Appointed Professor (Personal Chair) in the Department of Biochemistry from 1.10.90.
Resigned fellowship on appointment to the staff of the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, on 1.10.91.
1995-2005 NIH Merit Award.
Elected a Member of the Institute 2003.

Fellow 1994-1998

Area of Current Research Interests
The cellular and developmental biology of the filamentous, antibiotic-producing bacteria Streptomyces. Fundamental aspects of bacterial transcription. The regulatory networks and cyclic nucleotide signalling events that control sporulation in Streptomyces.

Other Information
Appointed Group Leader, John Innes Centre, 1990.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999.
Appointed Professor, 2005.
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2009.
Appointed Head, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, 2012.
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, 2017.
Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Microbiology of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, 2019.
Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2022

Fellow 1997-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
Immunological control of human persistent virus infections, particularly HCMV and HIV.

Other Information
Granted six months unpaid leave of absence for specialist training at Emory University, USA, from 1.4.01. Fellowship extended to 31.3.03.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.

Fellow 1982-1984

Area of Current Research Interests
Solution studies on the structure and dynamics of proteins, protein-protein complexes and protein nucleic acid complexes using a range of NMR spectroscopy methods.

Other Information
Resigned fellowship on appointment as Joint Head of the Biological NMR Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, 1.10.84.
Appointed Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Disease, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, 1988.
Scientific Achievement Award (Biological Sciences) Washington Academy of Sciences, 1989.
Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1990.
Elected Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 1990.
Elected Fellow Washington Academy of Sciences, 1991.
Appointed Chief, Protein NMR Section, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, 1991.
Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health, 1992.
National Institutes of Health Lecture, 1993.
Dupont-Merck Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society, 1993.
Appointed to Senior Biomedical Research Service, 1996.
The Harrington Lecture, NIMR, 1996-1997.
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1999.
Original member, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Highly Cited Researchers Database (2001).
Elected a Member of the Institute 2003.
Elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society (USA), 2009.
Hillebrand Award of the Washington Chapter of the American Chemical Society, 2010
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010.
Appointed NIH Distinguished Investigator, 2011.
Elected a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance for “Seminal contributions in the field of biological NMR”, 2011.
Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize, 2011.
Biochemical Society 2013 Centenary Award and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Memorial Lecture, 2012.
Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 2014.
Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, 2015
Biophysical Society Innovation Award, 2020.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020.
Biophysical Society Innovation Award, 2020.
Khorana Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021.
Awarded honorary doctorate (DSc) from University College London, 2021.
Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize, 2021.

Fellow 1986-1991

Area of Current Research Interests
Role of lipids in cell signalling, physiology and exocytosis. Disease implications when lipid regulation breaks down.

Other Information
Promoted to Reader in Physiology & Biochemistry, 1992.
Appointed Professor of Cell Physiology from 1.10.94.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.

Fellow 1989-1994

Area of Current Research Interests
Protein DNA interactions, DNA polymerases, DNA repair, restriction and modification.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.1.91.
Appointed Lister Institute Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1.1.92, the Chair to continue in the Institute’s name until 30.9.94.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
MRC Senior Research Leave Fellow, 1.10.97-31.3.00.

Title of Research Project

Analysis of the role of (p)ppGpp in staphylococcal infection using zebrafish as a model organism

Other Information

Awarded a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award, 2024

Fellow 2007-2012

Area of Current Research Interests
The role of ATM and ATR in preventing genomic instability.

Other Information
Nominated EMBO Young Investigator member
Awarded European Research Council (ERC) start up
Moved to IFOM, Milan 2013.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2014.

Fellow 2002-2007

Area of Current Research Interests
Maintenance of epigenetic state, with focus on Spatial organisation of DNA replication, with focus on expression and function of CIZ1 protein variants. Biomarker development based on CIZ1 variant expression in lung cancers.

Other Information
Transferred location of laboratory from Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge, 01.02.02.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2008.
Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow 2019-2020
Founded Cizzle Biotech in 2006, listed 2021 to progress a blood test for the early detection of lung cancer.

Fellow 1999-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
We study the molecular mechanisms of protein sorting in mammalian cells and the fundamental role it plays in cell, tissue and organism-level function. Specifically, our mechanistic dissection of protein sorting within the endosomal network has provided the framework to understand and interpret the de-regulation of endosomal protein sorting observed in a broad array of human diseases. These include cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, most notably Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease, as well as metabolic disorders such a type 2 diabetes.

Other Information
Promoted to Professor, 2002.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.
Royal Society Merit Award Holder, 2008.
Biochemical Society Morton Lecture, 2010.
Keith Stanley Lecture, 2011.
Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2020.
Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship, 2021.
Elected Member of EMBO, 2021.

Fellow 2005-2010

Area of Current Research Interests
Nanotubes and synapses in immune cell communication.

Other Information
Promoted to Professor of Molecular Immunology, 2008.
Awarded Wolfson Royal Society Research Merit, 2008.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2011.
Moved from Manchester University to become the Head of Life Sciences at Imperial College London, 2022

Fellow 2000-2002

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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

Area of Current 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.

Fellow 2011-2016

Area of Current Research Interests
Prevention of deaths from pesticide self-poisoning
Clinical pharmacology of antidotes

Other Information
Awarded a personal chair October 2013.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2016
Awarded Cullen Gold Medal for the ‘Greatest Benefit to the Practice of Medicine’ Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , 2017.
Director, Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention.
Consultant Clinical Toxicologist, National Poisons Information Service – Edinburgh & Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, NHS Lothian.
Honorary Consul for Sri Lanka in Scotland.
University of Edinburgh’s Chancellor’s Award, 2020

Fellow 1987-1995

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular approaches to the control of insect-born diseases with a particular interest in insect molecular biology, insect parasite interactions, transgenic tech-nology, gene structure and expression.

Other Information
1990 Genetical Society Balfour Lecturer.
Fellowship extended by 3 years to 30.9.95.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.93.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Appointed Professor of Molecular Entomology, Keele University, 1999
Appointed as Faculty Research Director for Natural Sciences, 2014
Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Entomological Society, 2015
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (Hon. FRES),2017.

Fellow 1996-2000

Area of Current Research Interests
The pathogenesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, in particular the type III secretion system and associated toxins. Second interest is the pathgenesis of septic shock and the role of nitric oxide and of ENA/VASP proteins and their phosphorylation by nitric oxide.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Fellowship deferred until 1.1.96 in order to complete clinical training.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer and Hon Consultant, April 1996.
Appointed Reader in Infectious Diseases 1.10.99.
Elected a Member of the Institute 2002.
Appointed Professor Molecular Microbiology, University of Glasgow from 1.11.03.

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Translational research programme for prevention of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

Other Information
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2013.
Elected a member of the Institute 2014.
Member of the Governing Body for 6 years, 2015.

Fellow 1989-1994

Area of Current Research Interests
Sequence specific recognition of DNA by small molecules (drugs and other ligands), oligonucleotides and proteins. Novel DNA structures (triple helix and quadruplex formation).

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.92.
Appointed Reader Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences from 1.10.94.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Promoted to a personal chair in Biochemistry 1.7.00.
Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research from 1.2.02.
Appointed Head of Division of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 1.9.02.
Taken a 50% position in July 2015 as Associate Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, whilst retaining post in Southampton (reduced to 50%).

Fellow 1989-1995

Area of Current Research Interests
Synthesis and evaluation of novel biologically active chemicals with relevance to drug development and delivery. (Inositol phosphate and carbohydrate phosphate analogues, enzyme substrates and inhibitors.)

Other Information
Lilly Prize for Pharmaceutical Excellence, 1993.
Leave of absence granted to work at the Cancer Research Institute, Arizona State University for 6 months in 1994.
Transferred to the Dept of Pharmacy, Manchester, 1994
Fellowship extended by 6 months to 30.9.95.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Senior Lecturer from 1.10.97.
Promoted to Reader, July 2009.

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Endothelial guidance in vascular patterning

Other Information
Tenured Senior Group Leader, LRI, 2009.
Awarded Walther Fleming Medal of the German Society for Cell Biology, 2009.
Elected a member of the Institute 2014.
Moved to Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, 2014.
Professor for Experimental Cardiovascular Research, Charité, Berlin
DZHK Professor (German Center for Cardiovascular Research) and BIH Professor (Berlin Institute of Health)
Spokesperson MDC Integrative Biomedicine and Head of Integrative Vascular Biology, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Fellow 2001-2006

Area of Current Research Interests
Modulation of fetal cardiovascular function by reversible adverse intrauterine conditions: consequences for later life.

Other Information
Granted permission to spend the 9 months from 1.1.02 to 30.9.02 in Bolivia and Chile.
Awarded Hon Professorship University of Chile, 2002.
Promoted to Reader in Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2007.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
Netherlands Wim Schellekens Prize lecture.
Inaugural Lang-Pardi Italy Foundation Award.
Awarded personal chair, 2011.
Section Editor, Pediatric Research, 2011.
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 58th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2011.
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 59th Annual Meeting,
San Diego, USA, 2012.
The Giorgio Pardi Foundation President’s Presenter’s Awards. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 59th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2012.
Gonville & Caius 1958 Endowed Lectureship in Medicine, 2012.
The Giorgio Pardi Foundation President’s Presenter’s Awards. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 60th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, 2013.
Associate Editor, Journal of Gynecology, Reproduction and Perinatology, 2013.
Elected President of the Fetal & Neonatal Physiological Society, 2014.
Reviewing Editor, The Journal of Physiology, 2014.
Section Editor, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health & Disease, 2014.
Associate Editor, American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology), 2014.
President’s Presenter Award. The Society for Reproductive Investigation 62nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2015
Thomas McDonald Award of The Society for Reproductive Investigation 62nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2015
David Barker Memorial Prize Lecture, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2015.
Sir Peter Tizard Prize Lecture, Neonatal Society, Winchester, UK, 2015
Honorary Professor, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, 2015
ScD Degree from the University of Cambridge, 2016
Nick Hales Medal from the International Society of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 2017
FRCOG awarded from the Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in recognition of scientific work and its translational impact to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and their unborn children, 2017.
Elected to Latin American Academy of Sciences, 2018.

Fellow 1992-1998

Area of Current Research Interests
Regulation of glucose transport in insulin-sensitive tissues in health and disease. Single molecule imaging of plasma membrane proteins. Cellular and Subcellular analysis of metabolic processes.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Lecturer retrospectively from l.7.92.
Promoted to Reader in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from l.10.95.
Fellowship extended by one year to 30.9.98.
Awarded a Personal Chair in Membrane Biology, 1997.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999.
Deputy Head of Biochemistry and Microbiology Division 1998-2004.
Wellcome Research Leave Fellowship, 2004-2007.
Professor Cell Biology, 2005 – 2019.
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Research, 2013-2016.
Professor, University of Strathclyde, 2019 – present.

Fellow 2006-2011

Area of Current Research Interests
Secretion of incretin hormones from the mouse intestine

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute, 2012.
Professor of Endocrine Physiology (University of Cambridge), 2012.
Elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2015.
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2015.

Fellow 1983-1998

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of cell injury and death in human disease and in response to toxins.
The role of antioxidants in nutrition, health and disease.
Natural and synthetic antioxidants as therapeutic agents, especially for neurodegenerative disease.
Fundamental mechanisms of the ageing process

Other Information
Previous Posts:
Head of Biochemistry Department, King’s College (1988-1990).
Professor of Medical Biochemistry in the Division of Pharmacology, University of London, King’s College, 1998-2000.
Deputy Director, Office of Life Science, NUS 2001-03
Head, Department of Biochemistry, NUS 2000-2007.
Executive Director, NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences & Engineering, 2003-2008.
Deputy President (Research & Technology), NUS, 2006-May 2015.
Senior Advisor to the President
NUS, Jun 2015-May 2018

Awards:
Award from the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Top Cited Scientist in the United Kingdom in Biomedical Sciences, 1999.
Chosen as a founder member of the ISI database of the world’s most influential scientists in Biology and Biochemistry, 2000.
Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Scientist (cross-field)
Awarded by Thomson Reuters as one of the world’s most highly-cited researchers in Neurobiology & Behaviour, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Biology and Biochemistry.
Awarded lifetime membership of the Oxygen Club of California, 2002.
Awarded the status of “most cited scientist” in Agricultural Sciences, ranked 16 out of 1663 worldwide in ISI database, 2003.
Awarded Research Excellence Award, School of Medicine, NUS, 2005.
Laboratory ranked number 1 worldwide by highest citation score in Free Radical Research, 2007.
Awarded “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine in the USA, 2008.
Awarded by FEBS Letters as top reviewer for 2009-2010.
Awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the President of Singapore for contributions to Singapore, 2010.
Awarded by Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) as a “Campus Leader Who Cares” in 2011
Awarded the Ken Bowman Research Award for outstanding achievements in the field of cardiovascular research from the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (Canada) in 2011.
Awarded status of “Redox Pioneer” by the high impact journal Antioxidants & Redox Signaling in 2011.
Two research papers were recognized as Citation Classics by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) and a commentary published in Current Contents.
Awarded NUS University Award – Outstanding Researcher Award in 2012.
Recognised as a Fellow of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine for outstanding contributions made to the association as well as the field of free radical chemistry, redox biology and antioxidants, 2012.
Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012.
Awarded the Science and Technology Medal by the President of Singapore “for distinguished sustained and exceptional contributions to Singapore’s Science and Engineering landscape”, 2013.
Received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Singapore Neuroscience Association, 2014.
Received the Society of Nutrition and Food Science Advances in Nutrition Research Award, 2015.

Fellow 2016-2021

Area of Current Research
In vivo kinetics and functional response of human mononuclear phagocytes during acute tissue inflammation

Other Information
Foulkes Foundation Medal 2019.
Elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2020.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2021

Fellow 1988-1993

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding molecular mechanisms by which intracellular signalling enzymes (the phosphoinositide 3-kinases; P13Ks) and their lipid products regulate cellular processes (movement, survival and proliferation).

Other Information
Transferred to the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, on 1.10.90.
Appointed a BBSRC Senior Research Fellow, 1993.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2013.

Title of Research Project
Salmonella Persister formation at the single cell level

Fellow 1992-1997

Area of Current Research Interests
The neural regulation of reproductive functioning, specifically looking at the role of different neuronal cell types in the regulation of fertility using molecular, cellular and whole animal studies.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow
Awarded the Drapers Research Fellowship, 1991-1994.
Promoted to Principal Scientific Officer, April 1994.
Fellow of Pembroke College from 1.10.94.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1998.
Awarded Benoit Prize, Société de Neuroendrocrinologie Expérimentale, France, 1998.
Promoted to Senior Principal Research Scientist, 2000.
Awarded Ernst Knobil Prize, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2000.
Awarded Wellcome Trust Overseas Research Fellowship from 1.9.02 (to be taken up in New Zealand).
Appointed Professor in the Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, 1.9.02.
Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2007.
Awarded Liley Medal, Health Research Council of New Zealand, 2009.
Awarded Triennial Medal, Physiological Society of New Zealand, 2011.
Awarded Distinguished Research Medal, University of Otago, 2011.
Mortyn Jones Medal, British Society for Neuroendocrinology, 2015
Appointed Professor of Neuroendocrinology, University of Cambridge, 2019.

Fellow 1990-1995

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding the processes involved in immune cell recognition of antigens and in immune response initiation. Role of the transmembrane protein CD45 in lymphocyte activation and regulation.

Other Information
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.

Fellow 1991-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding biomolecular recognition at the atomic level. Specifically the dynamics and thermodynamics of biomolecular interactions using a range of biophysical techniques and molecular modeling.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.92.
Transferred as Reader in Chemistry to the University of St Andrews from 1.10.94.
Appointed Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, 1.10.96.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1998.
Received Zeneca Award from the Biochemical Society, 1998.
Appointed Professor of Structural Biology (NMR), University of Leeds, 1.3.99.
Newcastle University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Science, Agriculture & Engineering, January 2012.

Fellow 1994-1999

Area of Current Research Interests
Study of large molecular assemblies and biopolymers to understand the chemistry of weak intermolecular forces (non-covalent interactions) through the determination of thermodynamic properties, computer modeling and molecular design.

Other Information
Appointed Reader retrospectively from 1.10.94.
Zeneca Research Award for Organic Chemistry, 1995.
Appointed Lister Institute Professor of Chemistry, 1997
Appointed Head of Organic Chemistry, 1998.
Awarded the Corday-Morgan Medal, 1999.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2000.
Appointed EPSRC senior research fellow, 2005.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2008.
Awarded RSC Tilden Prize, 2009.
Moved to University of Cambridge, 2014.
Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 2015

Fellow 2009-2014

Area of Current Research Interests
Microcephaly, genome stability, inflammation and growth

Other Information
MRC Senior Clinical Fellowship 2007-2012.
Balfour Lectureship, Genetics Society, 2012.
Transferred to Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics October 2011.
GSK Prize, Biochemical Society, 2012.
Elected to EMBO membership 2013.
Promoted to Professor 2013.
Fellow of Royal Society Edinburgh, 2014.
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2014.
Elected a member of the Institute 2015.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020.

Fellow 1986-1991

Area of Current Research Interests
Neural basis for active listening through the investigation of how neurons in the hearing centres of the brain adapt to the statistics of sound stimulation, which constantly change in real-life environments, integrate other sensory and motor-related signals, and adjust to the abnormal auditory inputs resulting from hearing impairment.

Other Information
E.P. Abraham Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Lincoln College, 1986-1989.
Visiting worker at the Eye Research Institute, Boston, Mass., June to October 1988.
Appointed Lecturer in Neurology & Medicine, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1989.
1990 Wellcome Prize in Physiology.
Elected Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, 1.2.91.
Fellowship renewed in 2000 to 2006.
Appointed a University Research Lecturer, 1996.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Appointed Reader in Auditory Physiology, 2000.
Elected to Senior Research Fellowship in Medical Sciences, Merton College, 2002.
Co-Director, Oxford Hearing and Balance Centre, 2003.
Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Oxford, 2004.
Member of the National Committee of the British Neuroscience Association, 2004-2007.
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, 2006.
Elected to a Supernumerary Fellowship, Merton College, Oxford, 2007.
Editorial Board, Journal of Neuroscience, 2009.
Member of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People Medical Advisory Panel, 2007-2011.
Director, Wellcome Trust 4 year doctoral training programme in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, 2010.
Chief Research Advisor, Deafness Research (UK), 2011/13.
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2011.
Editorial Board, Journal of Physiology, 2011.
Appointed Member of the Royal Society/Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship Committee, 2012.
Action on Hearing Loss PhD review panel, 2014.
Member of the Editorial Board, eLife, 2015.
Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship renewed, 2016.
Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 2016.
Elected as a Fellow of the Physiological Society, 2017.
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2018.

Fellow 1995-2000

Area of Current Research Interests
Cancer biology: molecular control of cell proliferation and death. Specific interests in telomeres and telomerase, and p53 induced cell senescence.

Other Information
Appointed Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology, University of Wales College of Medicine, from 1.10.96.
Appointed Co-ordinator BBSRC’s “Strategic Initiative into Ageing”, May 1998 (for 4 years).
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001
Awarded a personal chair in the Department of Pathology from 1.2.02.

Fellow 1993-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
The physiology and biochemistry of the malaria parasite.

Other Information
Staines Medical Research Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, 1.10.92 to 30.9.95.
Sub-Rector at Exeter College, Oxford, 1994/95.
Senior Research Fellow in Physiology at Exeter College, Oxford, from 1.10.95 to 31.12.97
Resigned fellowship on 31.5.96 on taking up the Chair of Biology at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, on 1.6.96. Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from 1.12.96 – 31.5.09.
Fellowship continued until 31.12.96.
Awarded the Roche Medal of the Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2002.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Elected to an Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, 2003.
Awarded Australian Society for Parasitology’s Bancroft-Mackerras Medal, 2008.
Director ANU Research School of Biology 2009-2014.
Dean, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, 2014-2017.
Elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, 2017.
Dean, ANU College of Science, 2017-present

Fellow 2010-2016

Area of Current Research Interests
Miro family proteins as regulators of synaptic bioenergetics and a locus for mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disease

Other Information
Extended Fellowship to 31 December 2016.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2016.

Fellow 2011-2019

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding how CpG islands and chromatin regulate gene expression and development in mammals.

Other Information

Elected EMBO Young Investigator 2010.
Francis Crick lecture, 2015.
Elected to membership of the Institute 2016.
Named Chair and Professor of Genetics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 2017.
Extended Fellowship to 31.12.19.
Elected member of the Institute, 2019.
Elected EMBO Member 2021

Fellow 2012-2018

Area of Current Research Interests
Bacterial interference with the ubiquitin system

Other Information
EMBO Young Investigator, 2011-2014.
EMBO member since 2014.
Extended Fellowship to 31.3.18.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2017.
Moved to Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia, 2018.

Fellow 1995-2000

Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms of oxygen sensing and impact of hypoxia. The role of ion channels, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in the maturation of oxygen sensing and the effect of hypoxia upon cardiorespiratory disease.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer, 1.10.96.
Appointed Reader from 1.8.97.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001.
Deputy Editor in Chief, Journal of Physiology, 2005.
Appointed Director of the Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2015.
Appointed Chair of the Physiological Society’s Publications Committee, 2015.
Connections Editor, Experimental Physiology 2015.
Physiological Society Otto Hutter Prizewinner 2016
Fellow, Physiological Society 2018.

Fellow 1987-1992

Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms regulating cancer cell growth and proliferation (particularly the pRb/E2F pathway). Transcription factors and co-activator proteins in co-ordinating the cell cycle and other physiological processes.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Awarded a tenured position at NIMR from 1.10.92.
Elected a Member of the Institute, November 1993.
Appointed to the Cathcart Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1.10.95.
Chief Scientific Officer of Prolifix, from 1996.
Elected to European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), 2003.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004.
Moved to John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2008.
Moved to Old Road Campus Research Building, Oxford, 2011.

Fellow 2004-2009

Area of Current 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.

Fellow 1990-1995

Area of Current Research Interests
Mitrochondrial DNA and genetics, mitochondrial gene expression, bio-energetics and biochemistry. Mitochondrial diseases.

Other Information
Appointed Lecturer in the Department of Neurology, University of Newcastle from 1.3.95.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Appointed Reader in Molecular Neuroscience, 1.8.98.
Appointed Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, 2000.
Appointed Director of the Institute for Cell and Molecular Bioscience, 2011.
Appointed Deputy Director, Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research 2017

Fellow 1993-2000

Area of Current Research Interests
Gene therapy for neurological disorders, specifically brain tumours, Parkinson’s Disease and multiple sclerosis. Also interested in neuro-immunology and viral immunology and viral vectors for gene therapy.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.94.
Appointed Lister Institute Professor of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy from 1.7.95.
Reviewer of Clinical Trials in Gene Therapy and advisor for the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, 1996.
Fellowship extended by 2 years to 30.9.00.
Member of the MRC’s Medical Advisory Board, 1999.
Appointed Member of the “Biological Sub-Committee” of the UK Medicines Control Agency, 1999.
Ad-hoc advisor to the NIH-RAC Committee on Human Gene Transfer Protocols, 1999, 2000.
Awarded the ‘Brain Bursary’ to give the Annual Brain Bursary Lecture, 2000.
Appointed Director and head of the ‘Gene Therapeutics Research Institute’ at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles from September, 2001.

Fellow 2012-2018

Area of Current Research Interests
Elucidating mechanisms of myelinated axon formation, function and repair using zebrafish

Other Information
Extended Fellowship to 30.09.18.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2017.

Fellow 2008-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Functional parallels between HIV-1 budding and the last step of cell division

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer, 2008
Elected EMBO Young Investigator member, 2008.
Professor of Viral Cell Biology, 2013.
Elected a member of the Institute 2014.
GlaxoSmithKline Award, Biochemical Society, 2014.
Vice Dean (Research and Impact), Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College, London, 2018.

Fellow 1991-1997

Area of Current Research Interests
DNA gyrase and other DNA topoisomerases: structure, function and mechanisms of action; role in DNA replication, recombination and the control of gene expression. Antibiotic action and discovery. Galleria mellonella as a model for the human infant gut microbiome.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Reader in the Department of Biochemistry, 1.10.94.
Awarded Personal Chair in Biochemistry from 1.10.97.
Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research 1998-2007.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1998.
Head of Biol Chemistry, John Innes Centre, 2000-2016.
Hon. Professor of Biological Science, UEA, from 1.8.01.
Member of Faculty of 1000 (f1000), 2008.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008.
Gordon Conference Evaluation Committee, 2010-2017.
Member of the Antibiotic Action Advisory Board, 2012-2019.
Inspiralis Ltd. – Director, Founder, Consultant and Chairman of the Board, 2005.
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2016.
Editor of J. Mol. Biol 2016-present.
Normanby Lecture in Microbiology (Trinity College Dublin) 2016.
Hamied Foundation UK-India AMR Visiting Professorships; Academy of Medical Sciences, 2019.

Fellow 2010-2016

Area of Current Research Interests
The molecular basis of latency and dissemination during cryptococcosis

Other Information
Appointed Professor of Infectious Diseases, 2014.
Awarded Royal Society Research Merit Award, 2015.
Extended Fellowship to 30 September 2016.
Elected to membership of the Institute 2016.
Director, Institute of Microbiology & Infection, 2017-2020.
Chief Scientific Adviser, Food Standards Agency, 2020-present.
Appointed Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2020
Appointed Gresham Professor of Physic, 2022

Fellow 1988-1990

Area of Current Research Interests
Signalling pathways in cancer and normal cells; insulin signalling and its defects in type II diabetes; mechanisms of insulin action and of glucose uptake and resistance; insulin secretion and its control. Mitochondrial metabolism, its regulation, control and functions of intracellular and intramitochondrial calcium.

Drug discovery.

Other Information
Resigned fellowship 30.9.90 on appointment as Head of Biochemical Pharmacology, Syntex Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Awarded DSc, University of Bristol, 1992.
Visiting Professor, University of Sunderland, 1994.
Appointed Head of Diabetes Biology Department, Novo Nordisk, A/S, Denmark, from 1.11.95.
Made Director of Diabetes Discovery, 1996.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Director of Target Cell Biology, Novo Nordisk, 1998.
Vice President, Target Cell Biology, Novo Nordisk, 2000.
Appointed Vice President for Discovery Research UK, OSI Pharmaceuticals from 1.6.02.
Vice President for Research, Prosidion from 1.12.04.
Chief Scientific Officer (from 1.12.04) and Senior Vice President for Research (from 1.7.07) at (OSI) Prodidion until 31.12.08.
Co-founded McC+R&D Consulting Ltd with Dr C Reynet, December 2009.

Fellow 1984-1990

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular basis of viral pathogenicity using reoviruses (and mutagenesis studies). Molecular characterisation of rota viruses and their pathogenicity. Molecular epidemiological studies.

Other Information
Promoted to Senior Lecturer from 1.10.85.
Appointed Reader in the Department of Biological Sciences from 1.10.87.
Fellowship extended for 1 year to 30.9.90.
Awarded Professor (Personal Chair) in Virology in the Department of Biological Sciences from 1.10.91.
Chairman, Warwick University Graduate School, since 1995.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.

Fellow 1994-1999

Area of Current Research Interests
Role of glycoproteins in viral immunogenicity and pathogenicity with a focus on HIV and hepatitis.

Other Information
Presented with the 1995 Fleming Award by the Society of General Microbiology.
Appointed Reader from 1.10.96.
Resigned fellowship 31.7.99 on appointment as Head of Virology for Pfizer. Resigned from Pfizer, March 2000.
Appointed Reader in Virology, University of Birmingham from October, 2000.
Appointed Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University, New York, January 2001.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Appointed to Chair of Molecular Virology, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, 2005.
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich, 2015-2018
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2016-2021.
Moved to Nuffield Department of Medicine, 2017.

Fellow 1998-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
Interest in inherited human disorders associated with unstable DNA, e.g. myotonic dystrophy and Huntington’s Disease. Studying molecular mechanisms that give rise to somatic and germ line genetic instability. The relation of these factors to downstream pathology.

Other Information
Presented the Genetical Society’s Balfour Lecture 1999.
Promoted to Reader from 1.8.00.
Awarded Personal Chair in Human Genetics, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.
Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2007.
Presented the Tenovus (Scotland) Medal Lecture, 2008.
Awarded Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Science Communication Award, 2012.
Awarded Muscular Dystrophy UK President’s Award for Scientist of the Year, 2017.
Awarded Huntington’s Disease Society of America Researcher of the Year, 2019.

Fellow 1997-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
Regulation of cell migration by ephrin mediated contact repulsion. Understanding how bi-directional signalling through Eph receptors and their ephrin ligands control the actin cytoskeleton and cell adhesion.

Other Information
Appointed Group Leader, MRC (LMCB) for 5 years and proleptic lecturer in the Anatomy and Developmental Biology Department, UCL, from 1.10.99.
Resigned fellowship from 1.10.01 following award of an MRC Senior Research Fellowship.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2002.
Moved to the University of Bristol, 2003.
Promoted to Professor of Cell Biology, 2012.
Appointed to Lister Institute Scientific Advisory Committee, 2017.
Head of the School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, 2014 – 2021.

Fellow 2001-2005

Area of Current Research Interests
Regulation of calcium signalling and calcium-dependent exocytosis in mast cells.

Other Information
Awarded the Wellcome Prize in Physiology 2002 by the UK Physiological Society.
Elected to the Monsanto Senior Research Fellowship, Exeter College, Oxford from October 2002.
Elected to Academia Europaea 2002.
Proleptic lectureship in cardio-vascular physiology, 2002.
Promoted to a Professorship in Physiology, 2002
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2006.
Elected a Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2012.
GL Brown Prize by the UK Physiological Society, 2012.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2019.

Fellow 1983-1986

Area of Current Research Interests
Structure-function relationships in antibodies and complement proteins.

Other Information
Resigned fellowship on appointment as Wellcome Trust Lecturer, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, 1986.
Appointed Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer, 1989.
Appointed Reader in Structural Biochemistry, 14.2.94.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Appointed Professor of Structural Biochemistry in the Royal Free & University College Medical School, 15.7.98.

Fellow 1996-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
The cell biology of glycosphingolipids and the role of these molecules in the pathophysiology of sphingolipid storage diseases, with emphasis on translating these findings into human therapy.

Other Information
Granted 6 months maternity leave from 1.4.97 to 30.9.97.
Appointed to Research Reader 1.10.99.
Awarded Merton Fellowship from 1.10.99.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Professor of Biochemistry & Pharmacology, 2008.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2009-2014.
Elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences, 2011.
Trustee Gordon Research Conferences, 2012.
Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Biology, 2012.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2013.
Elected Chair on Board of Trustees of Gordon Research Conferences, 2016.
Elected to Academia Europaea, 2018.
Head of Department of Pharmacology University of Oxford 2020
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 2021.
Awarded Thudichum medal, 2023

Fellow 1997-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
Signal transduction by receptor tyrosine kinases – particularly via endothelial growth factor (EGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

Other Information
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.

Fellow 1987-1993

Area of Current Research Interests
Peroxiredoxins and redox oscillations in the circadian (24 hour) clockwork

Other Information
Moved to Francis Crick Institute, London, 2015.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2017.
Moved to University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2019

Fellow 1987-1993

Area of Current Research Interests
Epigenetic gene regulation during mammalian development and its deregulation in disease. Particular focus on imprinted genes and their function, mechanisms for gene imprinting, how faults in the mechanisms contribute to disease, and epigenetic reprogramming in early embryos.

Other Information
Promoted to Principal Scientific Officer 1.10.89.
Fellowship extended by 1 year to 30.9.93.
Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Imprinting from 1992.
Awarded the 1994 Wellcome Prize in Physiology.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1996.
Elected to the MRC Scientific Advisory Board, 1997.
Head, Programme of Developmental Genetics from 1997.
Elected a Member of EMBO, 2003
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2003.
Promoted to Associate Director, Babraham Institute, 2004.
Head of Epigenetics & Chromatin Programme,
2008.Appointed Professor of Epigenetics in the Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, 2008.
Appointed to the Board of Management, Centre for Tophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, 2008.
Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2010.
Elected Member of Academia Europaea, 2011.
Appointed Associate Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, 2011
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2011
Founding member of the Sanger Institute/EBI single cell genomics centre, 2013
BBSRC Great British Bioscience Pioneer 2014.
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2014.
2018 Wellcome Investigator
Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher, 2018, 2019.
Neuberger Memorial Lecture Hebrew University, 2018.
Sammy Lee Memorial Lecture Crick Institute, 2018.
Riccardo Cortese Lecture, 2018.
ERC advanced grant, 2020.
Acting director Babraham Institute, 2020.

Fellow 1988-1993

Area of Current Research Interests
Investigation of the structure and functional relationships of biological macromolecules using X-ray crystallography. Specific areas of interest are rational drug design, analysis of the molecular basis of stability in proteins and the studies on protein – protein interactions in macromolecular complexes.

Other Information
Reader in the Department of Biochemistry, 1.10.90.
Appointed Professor (Personal Chair) in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and Director of The Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research at Sheffield from 1.10.93.
Elected a Member of the Institute, November 1993.
Appointed Head of Department, 1997-2006.
Elected a Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2005-2011.

Fellow 1989-1996

Area of Current Research Interests
The role of proteasomes in intracellular protein degradation in eukaryotic cells and various aspects of proteasome structure and function in animal cells.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow
Fellowship extended by 2 years to 30.9.96.
Promoted to Research & Analogous Grade III and made Hon Reader from 1.10.94.
Transferred fellowship to Bristol on 28.3.96.
Appointed Reader Department of Biochemistry, 1996.
Wellcome Trust University Award from 1996 to 2001.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1997.
Awarded a Personal Chair, 1.8.03.

Fellow 1993-1999

Area of Current Research Interests
The role of bacterial cell surface structures (polysaccharides primarily) in infectious diseases.  Specifically the synthesis of capsular polysaccharides in gram negative bacteria and the regulation of the capsule genes.

Other Information
Presented with the 1994 Fleming Award by the Society for General Microbiology.
Awarded the W.H. Pierce Prize by the Society for Applied Bacteriology, 1994.
Appointed Lister Institute Professor in Microbiology at the University of Manchester from 1.4.95.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2000.
Elected to the Council of the Society for General Microbiology for period 2000-2004.
Member of the Scientific advisory panel of the Meningitis Research Foundation, 2000-2006
Appointed Research Dean for the School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, from 1.1.02.
Member of the BBSRC Studentships and Fellowships Panel, 2003-2008
MRC College of Experts, 2004-2008
Member of RCUK Academic Fellowship Panel, 2004-2008
Member of the Biological Sciences Panel SFI, 2008-2013
Chair of BBSRC Training and Awards Committee (TAC), 2009-2013
Member of the BBSRC Biosciences Skills and Careers Panel, 2009-2013
Member of the BBSRC Strategic LoLa Committee, 2009-2014.
Member of the Immunology Panel Academy of Finland, 2012.
Associate Dean for Research Faculty of Life Science, 2012-2016.
Treasurer Microbiology Society UK, 2017-2022.

Fellow 2002-2007

Area of Current Research Interests
The regulation of cell fitness during embryonic development and its deregulation in disease.

Other Information
Elected a member of the Institute, 2009.

Fellow 2001-2005

Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms underlying embryonic neural precursor cell differentiation and therapeutic role in neural degeneration.

Other Information
Awarded a personal Chair in Clinical Neuroscience from 1.1.03 at the University of Wales, College of Medicine and an Honorary Chair at Cardiff University. (UWCM and UC have subsequently merged.)
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2006.
Elected as Chair of the European Huntington’s Disease Network in 2018.

Title of Research Project
Resolving mechanisms of gene regulation within the immune system using forward genetics

Fellow 1999-2004

Area of Current Research Interests
The development of T-cell inducing vaccines against vivax malaria.

Other Information
Granted unpaid leave of absence from 1.12.00 to undertake specialist clinical training in infectious diseases. Fellowship re-started 1.7.02 and to be completed 30.4.06.
Resigned fellowship 30.9.04 and took up an appointment as Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Charing Cross Hospital with an honorary research post at Hammersmith Hospital.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.

Fellow 2013-2018

Area of Current Research Interests
Decoding gene regulatory circuits controlling multipotency of neural crest

Other Information
Elected member of the Institute, 2018.

Fellow 2014-2019

Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms of aneuploidy in human oocytes

Other Information
EMBO Young Investigator Award, 2013.
Biochemical Society Early Career Award, Cells, 2014
ERC starting grant (ChromOocyte), 2014.
EMBL Alumni John Kendrew Young Scientist Award, 2015
Binder Innovation Award, 2016.
Moved to Max Planck Institute, Germany, 2016.
EMBO member, 2016.
EMBO Gold Medal, 2018.
Member of Leopoldina (German National Academy of Sciences), 2019.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis, German Research Foundation, 2019.
Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, 2019.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2019.

Fellow 1999-2004

Area of Current Research Interests
Structural enzymology with specific attention to protein-based electron transfer reactions, hydrogen ion tunnelling, relationship between protein structures and function and applications of redox enzymes.

Other Information
Benefactors’ Research Scholarship, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1985-1988.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020.
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship, 1988-1991.
Henry Humphreys Research Prize, St John’s College, Cambridge, 1989
St John’s College Research Fellowship, Cambridge, 1989-1992.
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 1991-1999.
Fellowship and Director of Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1992-1995.
Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society, 1999.
Promoted to Professor of Biochemistry from 1.10.99.
Lister Institute Research Professorship, 1999-2004.
Appointed to Advisory Board of the MRC, October, 1999 and to the Biochemistry & Cell Biology Committee of BBSRC, May, 2000.
Charmian Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003.
Awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge, 2003.
Moved to University of Manchester, 2005.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.
Professor of Molecular Enzymology, 2005 – present
BBSRC Professional Research Fellow, 2006-2011
Assoc. Dean Research (FLS), University of Manchester, 2008 – present
Rita and John Carnforth Prize, RSC, 2009.
Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, 2009.
Director, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, 2010.
Director Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, 2010-2019.
Director Synthetic Biology Research Centre, 2014.
Director UK Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub, 2019.
Elected Fellow Royal Society, 2020.

Title of Research Project

Biomarkers of materno-fetal health: role of placental endocrine mediators in normal and obese pregnancies

Other Information

Awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize, 2020

Fellow 1997-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
Transcriptional control of gene expression with a focus on transcription factors and co-activators/co-repressors, regulation by cellular signalling pathways including phosphorylation and sumoylation.

Other Information
Appointed Reader from 1.8.98.
Transferred fellowship to the University of Manchester from 1.1.99.
Awarded the BACR (British Association for Cancer Research)/AstraZeneca “Young Scientist Award” 2000 and the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, 2001.
Awarded the Tenovus Medal 2002.
Appointed Head of Division of Gene Regulation and Bioinformatics 1.4.02.
Promoted to Professor of Molecular Biology 1.6.02.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, 2014.
Promoted to Associate Dean for Research Technology, 2019.

Fellow 1988-1992

Area of Current Research Interests
Virology, particularly vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, and how it enters and leaves cells and interferes with the innate immune system.

Other Information
Jenner Fellow of the Lister Institute, 1988.
Reader in Bacteriology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, 1989.
Resigned Lister Institute Fellowship 30.6.1989, non-stipendiary Fellowship awarded 1.7.89 – 30.6.1992.
Fleming Award from the Society for General Microbiology, 1992.
Professor of Virology, University of Oxford, 1996.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2000.
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2000.
Wellcome Trust Principal Fellowship, 2000-2019.
Professor of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, 2000-11.
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of General Virology, 2003-2008
Fellow of the Royal Society, 2003.
Lister Institute Governing Body, 2003-2013.
Chairman, WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research, 2004-present.
MRC Infection and Immunity Board, 2004-2009
Wilhelm Feldberg Foundation Prize for Anglo-German Friendship in biological and medical science
Chairman, Virology Division, International Union of Microbiological Societies, 2005-2018.
Teaching Excellence Award, Imperial College London, 2008.
Founding Member of European Academy of Microbiologists (EAM), 2009.
Corresponding Member of the Gesellschaft für Virologie (GfV), 2010.
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, 2011-present.
Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2011-present.
Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), 2011.
President, International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), 2011-2014.
Wellcome Trust Expert Review Group, Member 2011-2014
Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection 2015-19.
American Society for Microbiology – GlaxoSmithKline, International Member of the Year Award, 2012.
Member, Biomedical Panel of the Research Grant Committee of Hong Kong, 2012-2018.
Member, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2015-
Member, Scientific Advisory Board Centre of Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.
Awarded Loeffler Prize Lecture by Friedrich-Loeffler Institute/Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany, 2016.
Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture 2018, the Microbiology Society.
Awarded Leeuwenhoek Medal and Prize Lecture Royal Society, 2019.

Fellow 2007-2012

Area of Current Research Interests
Control of infection and autoimmunity by an inhibitory Fc receptor FcγR11b

Other Information
Khoo Oon Teik Professor of Nephrology, National University of Singapore, 2007.
Promoted to Professor of Medicine, 2009 and Head of Department of Medicine, Cambridge, 2010.
Chairman, European Vasculitis Genetics Consortium and Director of FOCIS Int Center of Excellence, 2011.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2013.

Fellow 1990-1994

Area of Current Research Interests
Structural studies of the serpin family of proteins.

Other Information
Granted 1 year’s leave of absence from 1.3.91 for crystallography training, Dept of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Renewed fellowship 1.4.93; fellowship now to end 30.9.97.
Resigned fellowship 1.12.94 to take up research in the Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Granted, exceptionally, 6 months’ fellowship from 1.10.95 to 31.3.96 to complete research project at Cambridge.
Professor’s Prize in Clinical Biochemistry, 1966
Awarded a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellowship from 1.10.98 in the Department of Haematology, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2000.

Fellow 2009-2014

Area of Current Research Interests
Investigating the role of the RIDDLE syndrome gene in promoting repair of DNA damage

Other Information
Awarded CR-UK Senior Fellowship, 2011-2017.
Elected a member of the Institute 2015.
Promoted to Professor of Cancer Genetics, 2015.
Joseph Chamberlain Award for Scientific Advancement, 2017.
CR-UK Programme Grant, 2017-2022.

Fellow 1993-1998

Area of Current Research Interests
Protein targeting and organelle biogenesis in yeasts.  Translocation across membranes.  Functional genomics and yeast proteome.  Molecular chaperones.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Appointed Reader in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Manchester from 1.10.94.
Society for General Microbiology Fleming Award, 1997.
Awarded the 1998 Balfour Prize by the Genetical Society.
Appointed to a Personal Chair in Genetics from 1.8.98.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 1999.
Representative of the University of Manchester 1.2.01.
Education Dean, School of Biological Sciences, 2002.
Associate Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, 2004-2007
Vice President, University of Manchester, 2007-2011
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University, Australia, 2011-2014.
President and Vice Chancellor, Flinders University, Australia, 2015.

Fellow 2014 – 2019

Area of Current Research Interests
Microtubule-actin crosstalk in cell migration

Other Information
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2016.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2018.
Promoted to Professor, 2020.

Fellow 1998-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding how during animal development cells become polarized in developing tissues or organs in a co-ordinated fashion.  Using the cuticle of the fruit fly, Drosophila, as the model system and a variety of genetic and cell biological approaches.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Promoted to Reader from 1.10.01.
Awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship from 2003
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2004.
Promotion to Professor of Developmental Genetics, 2005
Awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, 2008.
Awarded Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, 2013.
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in 2018.

Fellow 2005-2010

Area of Current Research Interests
Mechanisms regulating chromosome duplication and segregation in the cell division cycle.

Other Information
Awarded Professorship December 2007.
Awarded the Hook Medal from the British Society for Cell Biology, 2007.
Elected an EMBO member, 2008.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2009.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2011.

Fellow 1992-1997

Area of Current Research Interests
Intra-cellular calcium signaling: specifically the regulation of calcium entry pathways, the structure and function of intra-cellular calcium channels, signalling receptors and G-proteins.

Other Information
Appointed Reader, Department of Pharmacology 1995 Elected a Member of the Institute, 1998.
Awarded ScD by the University of Cambridge, 1999.
Appointed Professor of Cellular Pharmacology, 1.10.01.
Biochemical Society, Council 2002-2005.
Elected member of Academia Europaea, 2013.
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator 2014.
Elected Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences, 2016.

Fellow 2010-2015

Area of Current Research Interests
Bioinformatics and network biology for unraveling regulation of T helper cell differentiation

Other Information
Elected as EMBO member 2012.
Moved to EMBL-EBI & Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst, 2013
Fellowship extended to 31 December 2015.
EMBO Gold Medal 2015.
Elected Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences 2015.
Head of Cellular Genetics, WSI 2016.
Elected a Member of the Institute 2016.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 2020.

Fellow 2006-2012

Area of Current Research Interests
Identifying and characterizing genes that control cell fate choice and social behavior.

Other Information
Fellowship extended until 31.08.12.
Elected a member of the Institute, 2013.
Awarded Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2013.
Moved to University College London, 2017.

Fellow 2001-2003

Area of Current Research Interests
Molecular mechanisms of mitochondria biogenesis with particular emphasis on the targeting, membrane translocation and assembly processes for membrane proteins using yeast. Role of Tim proteins as chaperones.

Oxidative folding and redox signalling in mitochondria in health and disease. Peptide-based pharmaceutical targeting of mitochondria for theranostic applications

Other Information
Resigned fellowship, 30 September 2003.
Appointed Associate Professor, University of Crete in the Institute of Biology & Molecular Biology, 1.10.03.
Consumables expenditure extended until 1.10.04.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2005.
Elected EMBO member 2013.
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2013.
Moved to University of Glasgow, 2013.
Cathcart Chair, University of Glasgow, 2013
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2016.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2020
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021
Director of Research, School of Molecular Biosciences, University of Glasgow, 2022
Elected member of Academia Europaea (MAE), 2022

Fellow 2001-2006

Area of Current Research Interests
MAPK signalling in cancer.

Other Information
Fellowship extended to 16.2.07.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2007.
Promoted to Senior lecturer 2012.

Fellow 2007-2011

Area of Current Research Interests
Dissecting the links between O-GlcNAc and intellectual disability

Other Information
Awarded professorship June 2006.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2010.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2012.
Awarded Novo Nordisk Foundation “Laureate” grant, 2022

Fellow 1996-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
Understanding the role of non-covalent interactions in recognition processes involving proteins. Specifically looking at the role of conformational dynamics and conformational transitions in the recognition of phosphoinositols, the assembly of cystatins, in prion proteins and in ligand binding and ligand recognition of mobile protein domains.

Other Information
Appointed to a personal chair from 1.10.99 as Professor of Molecular Biology.
Granted 7 months unpaid leave for training at the Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki from 15.3.01 and fellowship extended until 30.4.02.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Appointed member of the Institute’s SAC, 2012 2017.

Fellow 2007-2013

Area of Current Research Interests
Transcriptional control of mesodermal cell differentiation in vertebrates

Other Information
Transferred fellowship to King’s College London, 2010.
Fellowship extended to 30.09.13 due to move to KCL.
Elected a member of the Institute 2014.

Fellow 1999-2005

Area of Current Research Interests
Structural biochemistry of membrane proteins, immune response proteins and metabolic enzymes for diet and health; exploring structure-function relationships at the molecular level

Other Information
Transferred fellowship to University of Reading 1.10.01.
Reader in Structural Biology from 1.10.01.
Granted unpaid leave of absence from 1.10.01 to 31.3.02.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2001.
Fellow and Chartered Biologist of the Royal Society of Biology, 2002.
Granted maternity leave from 1.8.03 for 4 months.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2006.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2018
Promoted to Professor of Structural Biochemistry from 1.08.2018.

Fellow 2015-2021

Area of Current Research Interests
The nature, mechanism and function of RNA polymerase II modifications in health and disease

Other Information
EMBO Young Investigator Award, 2014.
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, 2015.
Moved to University of Exeter, 2017.
Extended Fellowship to September 2021.
Elected to membership of the Institute, 2020.

Fellow 1996-2001

Area of Current Research Interests
Regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription, its mode of action and control and its role in cell growth and cancer.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Awarded the ‘Young Scientist of the Year’ award for 1999 by the British Association for Cancer Research in association with Zeneca.
Promoted to Reader from 1.10.99.
Appointed Professor of Gene Transcription from 1.10.99.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2002.
Selected as The Young Cancer Researcher of 2003 by the European Association for Cancer Research.
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004.
Awarded the Tenovus Medal for 2004.
Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science, 2005.
Elected a member of EMBO, 2009.
Moved to University of York, 2013.

Fellow 2001-2006

Area of Current Research Interests
Role of scaffold proteins in regulating the specificity of the JNK signalling pathway: a critical mediator of stress responses in cells.

Other Information
Lister Institute-Jenner Fellow.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2007.
Promoted to Senior Lecturer, 2010.

Fellow 1984-1994

Area of Current Research Interests
Brain diseases and ageing with a particular focus on the molecular features of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Other Information
Granted extension of fellowship by 3 years to 30.9.92 to continue research and, exceptionally, to undertake clinical training for Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Granted further extension of 1 year to 30.9.93.

Awarded MRCPsych, Spring 1993.

Granted further extension of 6 months to 31.3.94.

Appointed Clinical Lecturer/Senior Registrar in Old Age Psychiatry, Cambridge, for 4 years from 1.3.94.

Appointed Professor of Psychiatric Geratology, University of Aberdeen from 1.10.97.

Elected a Member of the Institute, 2001.

Fellow 1997-2002

Area of Current Research Interests
Establishment of spatial patterns and polarity in the early embryo. Determination of cell fate in developing mammalian embryos.

Other Information
Granted maternity leave from 1.12.01 to 28.2.02.
Resigned fellowship 31.3.02 following the award of a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship from 1.4.02.
Elected a Member of the Institute, 2003.
Awarded Professorship, University of Cambridge, 2010.
Appointed member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee, 2019.