Hugh Field

Biography

 Hugh Field is Reader in Comparative Virology at the Centre for Veterinary Science, Cambridge University. He obtained his BSc with first class honours in microbiology from London University in 1969 and the PhD from Bristol in 1972 where he first became interested in the comparative biology of the herpesviruses. He moved to Cambridge in 1976 to join the late Professor Peter Wildy and he won the Pfizer Academic Award in Biology in 1984 and  obtained the Cambridge University MA followed by the ScD in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge where he is also Director of Studies in Medical and Veterinary Sciences. His research field is the development and assessment of antiviral compounds. His studies have focused on laboratory infection models to investigate the effects of antiviral agents on the pathogenesis of human and animal herpesviruses especially involving neurological infections including latency. He is the author of some 250 articles in these and related areas; presently focusing on the development of resistance to helicase/primase inhibitors of herpes simplex virus. He was for many years a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Antiviral Research and was elected President of the Society from 1994 to 1996. He was founding editor for the journals Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy and the former, International Antiviral News. He is currently editor-in-chief of Antiviral Chemistry and Chemotherapy and a virology editor of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, as well as serving on the Editorial Boards of several other virology journals. Currently, he is much involved with undergraduate teaching as organiser and lecturer in courses on infectious disease.

Research Interest

 Research on Infectious Diseases