Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Meet the team
Interim Head of Department
Dr Martha Betson
Associate Professor in Veterinary Parasitology and Head of Department
Infection and immunity
Dr Arnoud van Vliet
Infection and immunity research lead, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Microbiology
Dr Amin Asfor
Lecturer in Virology and Immunology
Professor Mark Chambers
Professor of Microbiology and Disease Intervention, Head of Section and Animal & Plant Biology
Professor Roberto La Ragione
Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS), Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology
Professor Falko Steinbach
Professor of Veterinary Immunology
Molecular and cellular medicine
Dr Ilknur Aktan
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy
Dr Christopher Basu
Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy
Dr Lisa Holbrook
Lecturer One Health-One Medicine (Non-Communicable Disease)
Dr Rebecca Lewis
Molecular and cellular medicine research department lead, Lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Sciences
Dr Giovanna Nalesso
Senior Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Biology, Director of Research, School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr Ioannis Smyrnias
Lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Sciences
Pathology
Kate English
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Dr Sarhad Alnajjar
Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology
Joana Crisostomo
Lecturer in Veterinary Surveillance and Investigation
Population systems and public health
Dr Giovanni Lo Iacono
Population systems and public health research lead, Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Professor Alasdair Cook
Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health
Dr Francesca Marie Contadini
Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
Dr Anjan Dutta
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dr Abel Bulamu Ekiri
Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Dr Joaquin Prada
Co-Director Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology
Veterinary sciences
Dr Olukayode Daramola
Lecturer in Veterinary Sciences and Education
Dr Martin Hawes
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Esther Lingard
Lecturer (B) in Animal Health and Husbandry
Dr Charlotte Sophia McCarroll
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Preclinical Sciences and Education
Dr Alessandra Pinna
Surrey Future Senior Fellow
Retha Queenan
Lecturer in Veterinary Professional Skills
Dr Christina Ratcliffe
Lecturer in Veterinary Wellbeing
William Wilkinson
Lecturer