Wendy Barclay | |
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Born | Wendy Sue Barclay |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | University of Cambridge (BA) University of Reading (PhD) |
Known for | Research of influenza virus |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Virology |
Institutions | Imperial College London Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
Thesis | The humoral immune response to rhinovirus infection (1988) |
Academic advisors | David Tyrrell Fred Brown |
Website | www |
Wendy Sue Fox CBE FMedSci (née Barclay) is a British virologist. She is currently head of Department of Infectious Disease and chair in Influenza Virology at Imperial College London.[1][2] She leads a team of scientists studying the influenza virus and its physiology and morphology to discover novel vaccines.[3][4] In particular, they are trying to understand more about influenza virus mutations, and how they can allow scientists to create new vaccines against possible flu pandemics.[4]