All links direct to the websites of the respective institutions, relevant award pages or an academic's profile. Administrative activities Dean, Bioscience Partnerships (2019 - ) Director, Wellcome Trust PhD programme 'Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health' (2016 - 2030) Director, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution (2011- ) Head of Institute, Institute for Immunology and Infection Research (2014 - 2017; co-Head, with Prof Amy Buck, 2022) Awards Alice and C C Wang prize for molecular parasitology awarded by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular biology (2023) Elected Fellow of The Royal Society (2020) Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2018) Sanofi Institut - Pasteur international laureate for research excellence in tropical and neglected diseases (2015) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2014) Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2014) Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2013) C. A.Wright medal of the British Society for Parasitology (2008) External activities Sectional Committee 7 member (Cell Biology) — The Royal Society (2021 - ) Non-Clinical Training and Career Development Panel — Medical Research Council (MRC) (2021 - ) Sectional Committee 2 member — Academy of Medical Sciences (2019 - 2021) Core member of the interview panel — Wellcome Trust (2014 - 2018) Joint Editor-in Chief — Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology (2010 - ) Editorial Advisory Board — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2021-) Editorial Advisory Board — Molecular Microbiology (2012 - ) Editorial Advisory Board — Eukaryotic Cell (2008 - ) Vice Chair (2010) and Co-Chair (2012), Gordon Research Conference on Host-Parasite Interactions, Rhode Island, USA 2012 conference details — Gordon Research Conference (grc.org) 2010 conference details — Gordon Research Conference (grc.org) This article was published on 2024-07-10