Dr Martin Hawes

Martin originally trained as an hospital pharmacist before moving to the pharmaceutical industry, where he spent 20 years in human drug discovery and development.  In 2012, he took a career break to read veterinary medicine, and graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2016.  Martin worked as a companion animal vet before joining the University of Surrey in 2018.  Martin was awarded the British Pharmacological Society Student Choice Award for Excellence in Pharmacology Teaching in 2021 and the BSAVA Amoroso Award for Teaching in 2022.  In addition to his part-time teaching role at Surrey, Martin is a Resident of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology and Visiting Associate Professorial Teaching Fellow at Aston University.