Vince Emery

Vince is President of the University of Hertfordshire’s branch campus hosted by the Global Academic Foundation in Egypt and is also an Emeritus Professor of Translational Virology at the University of Surrey and holds an Honorary Professorship in Virology at UCL.

Prof Emery graduated with a first class BSc in Biochemistry with Chemistry from the University of Southampton and then undertook his PhD research in mechanistic biochemistry under the auspices of Professor Muhammad Akhtar FRS. His interests in virology started when he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the NERC Institute of Virology at Oxford, where he worked on transcription termination in phleboviruses, determining the attenuations in a vaccine strain of Rift Valley Fever Virus used by the US Army, and developing the World’s first baculovirus multiple expression vector system which was subsequently patented and licensed.