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Principal Group Leader Kate Bishop gives this week's Crick lecture. Kate leads the Retroviral Replication Lab here at the Crick.

The Bishop lab investigates how retroviruses such as HIV infect and multiply inside cells so that it can better understand them, and develop more effective antiviral treatments.

Biography

Kate Bishop received a first class (hon) BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bath following two research placements; one at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and the other at Chiron Corporation in San Francisco, USA.

After completing her PhD studies with Jonathan Stoye working on the retroviral restriction factor, Fv1, she undertook postdoctoral training with Michael Malim at King's College London, investigating the APOBEC family of retroviral restriction factors. Kate was awarded a prestigious Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2004 to continue her APOBEC research.

In 2008 she was simultaneously awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship and a group leader position at NIMR enabling her to broaden her research interests and investigate various aspects of the early stages of retroviral replication.

Kate was awarded tenure at the Francis Crick Institute and promoted to Principal group leader in 2017. She was an Assistant Research Director at the Crick between 2018 and 2021. 

Alongside her research, Kate is passionate about engaging the public with science: from school children to pensioners; from patients to politicians and policy makers. In recent years, Kate has appeared on British television news programs, on YouTube being interviewed live by comedian Dara O’Briain about COVID19, at the Crick event, “Science on Screen”, with actor Nathanial Hall and on stage at the Barbican Theatre in London discussing HIV.  

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