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Alistair studied Medicine at the University of Glasgow and completed an intercalated BSc in Immunology during his undergraduate studies. He trained as a clinical pathologist at the West Scotland Training School, based at the Western Infirmary and Royal Infirmary Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals Glasgow. His training included the prestigious Pathological Society Centenary Clinical Fellowship, after which he completed a PhD focusing on autoimmunity and pathogen ganglioside mimicry in Guillain Barre Syndrome, supervised by Professor Hugh Willison and Doctors Carl Goodyear and Allan Mowat at the University of Glasgow. After completing his specialist training in 2014, he was appointed Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant at the University of Southampton, where his research interests encompassed tumour immunology and the glycosylation processes in neuroblastoma. In 2019, he took up his current role as Senior Clinical Researcher in the Department of Oncology, where he continues to investigate the effects of conventional chemo-radiotherapy on immune infiltrate and its implications on neuroblastoma biology and the role of cancer-associated gangliosides in tumorigenesis, aiming to target immunotherapy effectively.
Department of Oncology • University of Oxford
Leading research on the effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy on immune response in cancer.
University of Southampton •
Conducted research on tumour immunology and glycosylation in neuroblastoma.
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