Andrew Filby PhD

Dr. Andrew Filby is currently the head of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Newcastle University. Previously, he was the deputy head of the Cancer Research UK Flow Cytometry Core Facility at the London Research Institute He obtained his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Huddersfield, spending one year working for Zeneca in their Immuno-toxicology division where he first encountered flow cytometry. He then obtained a Ph.D. from the laboratory of Dr. Rose Zamoyska at the National Institute for Medical Research investigating the role of Src-family kinases in T cell development, activation, and differentiation. It was during this time that he fell in love with flow cytometry and realized its potential. He then went on to a post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Dr. George Kassiotis looking at immune responses to retroviral infection. This was followed by a brief foray into the world of commercial science where he first encountered Imaging Flow Cytometry.