I am originally from Ebbw Vale in South Wales (apparently it still shows in the way I say “molecular”). My first degree was in Biochemistry at Warwick University, graduating in 1975, and my D.Phil. was in Cell and Molecular Biology at Sussex University, graduating in 1979. After carrying out post-doctoral research at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London, I worked as Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Birmingham University from 1983 to 1993. I was appointed Professor of Biochemistry at Keele in 1993.

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