BSc, Bristol University; PhD, Cambridge University. Formerly, President and Chief Executive Officer, Avant Immunotherapeutics, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines. Research Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Member of many boards. 2009, honorary doctorate, Bristol University, Author of over 500 papers and 11 books on vascular endothelium. Recipient of awards: Cartier Women's Initiative Award (2009); Albert Einstein Award, for outstanding achievement in the life sciences (2007); Order of the British Empire, UK, for services to biotechnology (2002).