Currently Professor of Epithelial Biology, Department of Pathology University of Cambridge. Attended the Universities of London, Bristol and Adelaide.

I was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005. I have served on several research council committees and was a member of the Biology and Biotechnology Science Research Council from 2000-2003. I am currently a member of the Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee (SEAC) that advises the UK government on prion diseases. In 2004 I was awarded the OBE for services to Virology. My research interests have always concerned the biology of the cervical epithelium and how and why cancer of the cervix develops. My current research focuses on mechanisms of host defence and the development of vaccines and immunotherapies against human papillomaviruses, the cause of cervix cancer.

I have published extensively in peer reviewed journals (141 papers) and in the past 5 years I have given 45 keynote or plenary presentations at national and international meetings on these topics. I am currently on the Editorial Board of Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reviews in Medical Virology.