Fellow 1988-1992

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