Jonathan N. Weber FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath

Professor Jonathan Weber is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and from 1991-2018 was the Jefferies Professor of Communicable Diseases and GU Medicine.

He is a clinician by training and has undertaken extensive clinical and laboratory-based research on HIV/AIDS, HTLV-I, and other STIs. After general medical training he was a Wellcome Clinical Training Fellow at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (1982-4), subsequently a Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Cell and Molecular Biology at the Institute for Cancer Research Chester Beatty Labs (1985-88), and then Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital (1988-1991). He was appointed to his current position at Imperial College in 1991, in order to establish a new academic department studying HIV and other STIs.