Professor Miles Carroll, Deputy Director, Head of Research & Development Institute, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury UK, miles.carroll@phe.gov.uk & Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Director and Head of the Research and Development Institute, Miles was head of National Infections Service Research at PHE Porton. His current research portfolio includes: naturally acquired immunity to EBOV, understanding the host response to infection, development of emerging disease in vivo models & vaccines, and the application of molecular epidemiology to outbreaks.
Miles gained his PhD on HIV vaccine research from the Medical Faculty at the University of Manchester which enabled him to obtain a fellowship to continue his studies on recombinant poxviruses at the National Institutes of Health, USA. On his return to the UK, Miles joined Oxford Biomedica (OBM) as Vice President of Immunotherapy. At OBM Miles invented the cancer vaccine candidate, TroVax and led the pre-clinical and Phase II development programme.
Miles has authored >130 publications primarily in the fields of recombinant vaccines, host pathogen interactions and molecular epidemiology, and is the recipient of >15 granted patents. Miles is the PHE Lead for the Emerging & Zoonotic Infections Health Protection Research Unit and serves on several Scientific Advisory Boards including the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Defence Science & Technology Laboratories and the WHO R&D Road Map for Priority Pathogens. Miles has a joint appointment within the Medical Science Faculty at the University of Oxford and is honorary Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Southampton.