Prof. Ray Borrow PhD FRCPath is a HCPC registered Consultant Clinical Scientist who is Head of the Vaccine Evaluation Unit and Head of the Meningococcal Reference Unit at UK Health Security Agency, Manchester, UK, where he is responsible for the evaluation of serological responses to various bacterial and viral vaccines. He has performed numerous research projects and clinical trials as researcher, principal investigator and chief investigator.
He has authored over 470 peer reviewed scientific publications. He is Professor of Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Manchester, Visiting Professor at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Honorary fellow in the Department of Clinical Infection, University of Liverpool. Until recently he served as a member of the DoH Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and continues as an invited expert. He is a member of the SAGE meningococcal working group and an ad hoc advisor to WHO and PATH on both meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccines. He is a trustee of the charity the Meningitis Research Foundation.
