Comparative biomedical sciences research
Meet the team
Interim Head of Department
Dr Martha Betson
Associate Professor in Veterinary Parasitology and Head of Department
Infection and immunity
Dr Arnoud van Vliet
Infection and immunity research lead
Dr Amin Asfor
Lecturer in Virology and Immunology
Professor Mark Chambers
Professor of Microbiology and Disease Intervention, Head of Section and Animal & Plant Biology
Professor Falko Steinbach
Professor of Veterinary Immunology
Dr Emma Taylor
Surrey Future Fellow
Molecular and cellular medicine
Dr Ilknur Aktan
Associate Professor of Veterinary Anatomy
Dr Christopher Basu
Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy
Dr Hannah Bolland
Surrey Future Fellow
Dr Lisa Holbrook
Lecturer One Health-One Medicine (Non-Communicable Disease)
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
Kate English
Pathology research lead
Dr Sarhad Alnajjar
Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology
Joana Crisostomo
Lecturer in Veterinary Surveillance and Investigation
Population systems and public health
Dr Giovanni Lo Iacono
Population systems and public health research lead, Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Dr Martha Betson
Associate Professor in Veterinary Parasitology and Head of Department
Dr Francesca Marie Contadini
Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
Dr Anjan Dutta
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dr Abel Bulamu Ekiri
Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Dr Joaquin Prada
Co-Director Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology
Veterinary sciences
William Wilkinson
Lecturer
Dr Martin Hawes
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Retha Queenan
Lecturer in Veterinary Professional Skills
Georgina Catlow
Lecturer in Veterinary Sciences
Dr Christina Ratcliffe
Lecturer in Veterinary Wellbeing