Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
Nurturing the future leaders in biomedical research
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…
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 Senior Research Fellow in Physiology at Exeter…
Fellow 1986-1991 Area of Current Research Interests Pathogenesis of bacterial infection and the development of vaccines to prevent life threatening bacterial infections of childhood. Other Information Elected to a non-stipendiary Medical Research Fellowship by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1988. Appointed…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Title of Research Project Protein-level knockdown as a new frontier for biological and biomedical sciences
Fellow 2015-2021 Area of Current Research Interests Bacterial autophagy and the cytoskeleton in host defence Other Information Transferred to LSHTM, June 2018. Promoted to Professor, 2018. Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, 2012. Wellcome Beit Research Fellow, 2012. Wellcome Trust…
Fellow 2016-2021 Title of Research Project Z-RNA and Z-DNA: novel inducers of antiviral immunity Other Information Elected to membership of the Institute, 2021