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I am a Reader in the Academic Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology having joined the School of Clinical Dentistry as a Lecturer in 2005. Prior to this, I spent 7 years as a Research Assistant and then Research Fellow at the Medical School here in ºù«Ӱҵ.

Whilst carrying out my PhD in London, under the supervision of Professors Terry Tetley, Bernard Fox and Abe Guz, I developed the first 3D in vitro model of a human pulmonary alveolus; this has shaped much of my research interests as I have gone on to develop in vitro models of the trachea, the nasal cavity, the middle ear and salivary glands. My first post-doctoral position was at Washington University, St Louis Missouri where I spent two years in Robert Senior’s Department working with Erika Crouch on the role of surfactant protein D in lung immunity. I returned to the UK and had a post-doctoral position with Professor Tetley isolating novel proteinase inhibitors from human and sheep lungs (a good model of acute respiratory distress). Then I moved to ºù«Ӱҵ, working initially in the Medical School before being awarded a lectureship in the Dental School.

I have a long-standing collaboration with, and am a visiting Professor at, the Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba in Brazil. I am also a visiting Professor at the Dental School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte and established collaborative links with academic research groups in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre.