Visiting Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Human and Avian Influenza Research (ICHAIR), Edinburgh, U.K. (2006 � 2011)
Prof Peter Barlow's Recognition (160)
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Invited Member of Royal Society of Biology Working Group to prepare response to Government Consultation on the Clean Air Strategy for the UK
Invited Judge, Youth and Philanthropy Initative (YPI) Scotland Finals, Craigmount High School, Edinburgh, 2018
Access Microbiology (Reviewer)
Invited Speaker - Host defence peptides as novel antiviral therapeutics. The Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Member of Executive Committee, Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance (SULSA)
Invited Grant Reviewer for the Chief Scientist Office (Scotland)
Invited Grant Reviewer for The Carnegie Trust
Chair of Chief Scientist Office Clinical Academic Fellowship Interview and Award Panel
4 September 2018 - Work profiled in interview with Scientific American for article "Why haven't we cured the common cold yet?"
Organising Committee Member, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research and British Society for Immunology Conference �Inflammation: From Initiation to Resolution� Edinburgh, UK. April 2019.
18 June 2018 � Media coverage on researching cures for the common cold, following publication of commentary article in The Conversation �We have a good chance of curing the common cold in next ten years � a scientist explains". Comments were published in
14 June 2018 - Interview with USA NPR affiliate KPCW / Cool Science Radio on curing the common cold
British Science Association Media Fellow
Keynote Speaker - A Pep Talk: Curing the Common Cold, Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Invited Speaker - Modulation of autophagy and inflammation in rhinovirus infection. Edinburgh Immunology Group Annual Symposium. Edinburgh, UK.
Invited Speaker - Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Annual Symposium. Edinburgh, UK.
Keynote Speaker - Can we ever cure the common cold? Edinburgh International Science Festival, Hosted by Edinburgh Skeptics