Gavin R. Screaton

Who is Gavin R. Screaton?

Gavin R Screaton is a Professor at Imperial College, London. Professor Gavin Screaton was appointed to the Chair of Medicine at Imperial College in 2004.

Professor Screaton received his first degree from Cambridge in 1984 before moving on to Oxford to complete his medical studies in 1987. He then completed training in General Internal medicine and obtained a DPhil from Oxford University in 1998. His research, which has been supported by a series of Fellowships awarded by the MRC and Wellcome Trust, has covered a variety of topics from control of RNA processing and apoptosis to immunology. The current interests of his laboratory revolve around the immunology of infectious diseases with a special interest in dengue haemorrhagic fever, where his research is currently funded by the MRC and Wellcome Trust, with active research collaborations in South-East Asia.