Former Fellows

Fellow 2008-2013

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

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
Emertius Professor, 2025

Fellow 2010-2016

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, 2020-2025
Appointed Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, 2020
Appointed Gresham Professor of Physic, 2022
Appointed Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2023
Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2024
Chief Scientific Officer, UK Health Security Agency, 2025-present

Fellow 1988-1990

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

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

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

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
Steinert Basic Science Award of the International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium 2024
Muscular Dystrophy Association Sammy Davis Jr. Neuromuscular Disease Named Research Fellow 1994-1996