Professor David Livermore

David Livermore began his career in 1980 as Research Assistant at the London Hospital Medical College, writing a PhD ‘On the side’. By 1994 he’d risen to Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology. In 1997 he moved to the Public Health Laboratory Service, now Public Health England, swiftly becoming Director of its Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory. He remained until 2011, when he transferred to the University of East Anglia as Professor of Medical Microbiology.

Across 40 years he has belonged and led teams that have defined the evolving epidemiology and molecular nature of antimicrobial resistance.  He has authored over 500 papers and has served on UK government advisory committees on antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-infection.