Prof Graham H Coombs

Career: research fell Biological Lab Univ of Kent 1972-74; Dept of Zoology Univ of Glasgow: lectr 1974-86, sr lectr 1986-88, reader 1988-90, titular prof 1990-95, head of dept 1991-94; Inst of Biomedical and Life Sciences Univ of Glasgow: head Parasitology Lab Div of Molecular and Cellular Biology 1994-95, with Div of Infection & Immunity 1995-2006, personal professorship in biochemical parasitology 1995-2006, dep dir Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre 2005-06, head Strathclyde Inst of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Univ of Strathclyde 2006-; pres: Br Section Soc of Protozoologists, Br Soc of Parasitology 2008-; UK rep Int Cmmn of Protozoology; MRC: memb Physiological Med and Infections Bd 1999-2003, memb Cross Bd Gp 2000-04; Seymour H Hutner Prize Soc of Protozoologists 1986; FRSE 1993

Books and Publications: incl: Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis: Biology and Control (jt ed, 1997), Evolutionary Relationships among Protozoa (jt ed, 1998); author of more than 190 papers, articles and reviews, particularly on subjects relating to protozoan parasites