Dr George Lomonossoff

Career: postdoctoral fell MRC Lab of Molecular Biology Cambridge 1979-80, memb of staff John Innes Inst 1981- (fell 1980-81); short term EMBO fell 1982 and 1990; Fulbright scholarship to Cornell Univ 1987-88; visiting scientist The Scripps Research Inst La Jolla 1998, hon prof Sch of Biological Sciences UEA 2008; achievements incl: determination of the genome structure of plant viruses, developing novel methods of producing virus resistant plants, and developing use of plant viruses as potential vaccines; numerous articles in scientific jls; BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2012; memb: Soc for General Microbiology 1990, American Soc for Virology 1992, Assoc of Applied Biologists 2007