Prof. Uday Kishore, PhD FHEA FRSB FRCPath, is a passionate and translational researcher, an inspiring, engaging and inclusive teacher, an academic leader with a wide research network internationally and across Higher Education, charity, pharma and biotech sectors, and an inventor of biologics for clinical trials. He is a teacher and a scientist with special interest in innate immunity. He was the Founder-Director of the Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, Brunel University London. He obtained PhD from the Department of Zoology, University of Delhi and CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India. After spending a year at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, he moved to the University of Oxford for the major part of his post-doctoral training, first at the MRC Immunochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, and then at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital. He is the recipient of fellowships of NASA (USA), Wellcome Trust (UK) and Alexander Humboldt Foundation (Germany), MRC Investigator Prize, European Commission Young Scientist Prize, and Mother Teresa Excellence Award. He is also an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Biology UK (FRSB) and the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath London). Uday Kishore holds several adjunct, visiting and honorary professorial positions nationally and internationally. He has altogether authored nearly 300 research papers, book chapters, patents, and books. His research focuses on how innate immunity plays a crucial role in human health and disease.