Professor Simon M Cutting

Simon is a Reader in Molecular Microbiology at the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London. Simon obtained his PhD from Oxford University, UK in 1986 in microbial genetics. Following this he spent 6 years at Harvard University, USA, as a post-doctoral fellow working on microbial differentiation in the laboratory of Professor Richard Losick at the Biological Labs. Simon then became an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1992 and directed his own research program investigating the control of gene expression during spore formation in the Gram-positive bacterium. In 1996 he returned to England and set up his research group at the Royal Holloway. In 2003 Simon became Head of Biomedical Sciences in the School of Biological Sciences. His research interests cover the control of gene regulation in bacteria and the development of oral vaccines.

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Royal Holloway near Windsor is one of the major colleges of the University of London.