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Dr Martin Hibberd BSc(Hons) PhD; Senior Group Leader and associate director, Infectious Diseases at the Genome Institute of Singapore and has adjunct positions at the National University of Singapore and Imperial College (London, UK). Graduated with Honors from Brunel University in 1985 (West London, UK) and received his Doctorate, on the immune-genetics of the human T-cell antigen receptor, from King’s College, London. Has a broad scientific background spanning both microbial and human determinants of infectious and inflammatory diseases. Previous posts include WHO-funded Senior Microbiologist at the UK’s central Public Health Laboratories, and for seven years prior to his current appointment he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Imperial College School of Medicine, one of the very top-ranking British universities. Current research interests cover both pathogen and host aspects of infectious disease, understanding how microbial agents causes the observed disease (including pathogen identification and sequence characterization) and why specific individuals are susceptible to the disease (using host genetics on a genomic scale). Approaching infectious disease from these two directions also allows specific host pathogen responses to be investigated (utilizing RNA micro and low density arrays). This work aims to identify key host responses to specific pathogens that could be targeted by new therapies. |
