Fellow 2005-2010

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
Author of four popular science books (all published by Penguin Random House): The Compatibility Gene (2013), The Beautiful Cure (2018), The Secret Body (2021), Self Defence (2025).
Awarded an MBE for services to science communication, 2025.