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

Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (FHMS), Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology

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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

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

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

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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Dr Alessandra Pinna

Surrey Future Senior Fellow

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Retha Queenan

Lecturer in Veterinary Professional Skills

Dr Christina Ratcliffe

Lecturer in Veterinary Wellbeing