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Clare Bryant

Clare Bryant is Professor of Innate Immunity at Cambridge and an immunologist who used Google DeepMind’s Co-Scientist in 2026 to investigate infections that pass from animals to people. She trained in biochemistry, physiology and veterinary medicine, earned a London doctorate in 1993, and moved through Wellcome fellowships before becoming a Cambridge professor in 2013. Her research examines innate immune responses and zoonotic infection; her work has included a Cambridge GSK project on COPD and the natural-products company Polypharmakos. In 2025, she received an ERC Advanced Grant, a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award and the British Society for Immunology Outstanding Leadership Award.

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Timeline

  1. 1993

    A veterinary pharmacology doctorate

    After studying biochemistry and physiology at Southampton and training as a vet at the Royal Veterinary College, she earns a University of London doctorate in 1993 on the cardiovascular pharmacology of medetomidine.

  2. By 2013

    A Wellcome research fellowship

    By 2013, she completes a four-year Wellcome postdoctoral fellowship at the William Harvey Research Institute with John Vane, then joins Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow.

  3. 2013–2023

    Professor of innate immunity

    She becomes Professor of Innate Immunity at Cambridge in 2013, working across the Departments of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. By 2023, her research includes inflammasomes, cell-death complexes, and immune responses to pathogens that cross species.

  4. By 2025

    A GSK lung-on-chip project

    By 2025, she leads a Cambridge GSK respiratory project on COPD mechanisms that uses lung-on-chip models. She helps found the natural-products company Polypharmakos, which seeks products that reduce inflammation.

  5. March 2025

    Pandemic risk programme

    By March 2025, she is Co-Director of the Engineered Pandemics Risk Management Programme at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.

  6. 2025

    Three research honours

    In 2025, she receives an ERC Advanced Grant, a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award and the British Society for Immunology Outstanding Leadership Award for research on innate immunity.

  7. May 2026

    Co-Scientist in infectious disease

    In May 2026, she gives Co-Scientist a grant proposal on flu in birds and humans. The system prioritizes a protein and narrows the proposed tests to specific amino acids, which her lab explores in cell lines.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at Cambridge

    As of October 2026, she is Professor of Innate Immunity at the University of Cambridge, in its Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of CambridgeWellcome Trust Career Development Fellow
  2. Queen Mary University of LondonPostdoctoral Fellow
  3. PolypharmakosCo-founder
  4. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and HumanitiesCo-Director

Education

  1. 1993University of LondonDoctorate
  2. University of Southampton
  3. Royal Veterinary College

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Cambridge. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  2. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Cambridge. Stanford University trained or employed 20 of the 89 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.
  3. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes University of Cambridge. We estimate how 14,272 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University of Cambridge. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.

Sources and credits

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  1. Meet Clare Bryant asbmb.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Professor Clare Bryant hlri.cam.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Clare Bryant - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. When inflammation goes too far cam.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Professor Clare Bryant awarded prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for zoonotic infection research med.cam.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research deepmind.google. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases deepmind.google. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. Clare Bryant | School of the Biological Sciences bio.cam.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.