Honorary Professor: John Fazakerley

John K Fazakerley has been made an Honorary Professor.

Professor Fazakerley is Director of the Institute of Animal Health.

After undertaking a PhD in virus immunology at the University of London, he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and the Scripps Research Institute, California.

Returning to the UK, he established a research group at the University of Cambridge before moving to the University of Edinburgh in 1994.

He was for several years Professor of Virology in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine and a Research Group Leader at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh.

His research focuses on how viruses transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and flies produce disease, in particular encephalitis and arthralgia.

He also has an interest in the neuropathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).

Professor Fazakerley currently coordinates an EU-funded international programme on Chikungunya virus; in recent years this virus has infected millions of people.

Professor Fazakerley has been a member of UK research review panels, Chair of the UK Food Standards Agency TSE panel and a member of the NIH Special Committee on National and Regional Biocontainment Facilities.

He is an editor of the “Journal of General Virology”.