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