Prof Glyn Hewinson

Biography

Glyn Hewinson graduated in microbiology from Bristol University, UK, and obtained a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Oxford, UK. He then moved to the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the same university, where he developed a keen interest in the molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis. He was appointed Head of the TB Research Group at VLA Weybridge, UK, in November 1996, where he has lead a multidisciplinary team involved in the development of tuberculosis vaccines for badgers and cattle and of improved diagnostic tests for tuberculosis in these species.

His group was also responsible for the molecular fingerprinting of Mycobacterium bovis isolates for epidemiological purposes. This has resulted in a growing interest in the molecular evolution of M. bovis. Glyn was leader of the M. bovis genome-sequencing project and is a visiting professor at Imperial College, London, UK. He is currently Chief Scientist of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), in Weybridge, UK.