Simon graduated with a Bachelors from University College London in Zoology and completed a Masters in Immunology at Kings Collage London shortly thereafter. He worked for the Flow Cytometry Facility at Imperial Cancer Research (now Cancer Research UK) for five years where he first encountered cell sorters. Much of his time there was spend preparing and sorting human chromosomes.
The next position was the Department of Medicine in Cambridge University, UK where he ran the flow facility. Research centered around immunology and infectious diseases. Next Simon ran the flow facility at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York. These were the early days of triple therapy, and most of the work was monitoring the immune system on patients on clinical trials, exciting times in AIDS research. The next position saw Simon spending 7 years in the Adirondacks, Upstate New York where he ran the Flow facility for The Trudeau Institute, an institute focused on immunology and infectious disease research.
Simon then took a position as core manager at IBMC in Porto, Portugal. The focus of research at IBMC was basic cell biology including immunology, infectious disease research, fish immunology and some marine biology. 2008 saw Simon on the move again, this time to SCRM The Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine. As you can imagine the research focus was regenerative medicine and stem cell research.
Finally, Simon landed in Melbourne Australia in 2012 to head the flow cytometry facility at The Walter Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI). The research focus at WEHI is largely cancer, immunology and infectious diseases. Simon is passionate about technology, especially flow cytometry and has several ongoing research interests
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