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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 91Ö±²¥.

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 91Ö±²¥, 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.